Separate Lives Quotes:

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

- Paul Wellstone

topic: Integrity, Inspiration, Character, Character Education, Separate Lives

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

- Eugene Ionesco

source: "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book by Sy Safransky, 1990.

topic: Inspiring, Dream, Teacher, Separate Lives, Small Dreams

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Goodbye, Hurt, Hurt So Much, I Ll Miss You

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

topic: Meaningful, Connections, World, Interacting With Others, Restoring

My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.

- Sue Monk Kidd

source: Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.21, Penguin

topic: Children, Powerful, Heart, Chafing, Creative Expression

It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

topic: Life, Girl, Hands, Her Smile, Study Life

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

- Martin Gore

source: "Patton Oswalt Was Once a Young Adult, Has Aged, Reflects". Interview with Aaron Hills, www.villagevoice.com. December 7, 2011.

topic: Stars, Two, Rocks, Separate Lives

I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.

- Michael Angarano

source: "Ezra Miller and Michael Angarano on Going Method and The Stanford Prison Experiment". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, www.vulture.com. July 20, 2015.

topic: Home, Able, Kind, Separate Lives

We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.

- Francis Galton

topic: Sprung, Nature Of Man, Separate Lives, Embryos

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

- Rachel Carson

topic: Past, Earth, Environment, Uncertain Future, Separate Lives

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Memories, Past, Evil, Separate Lives

Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.” - Seneca “Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Choices, Each Day, Made, Separate Lives

In worship we have our neighbors to right and left, before and behind, yet the Eternal Presence is over all and beneath all. Worship does not consist in achieving a mental state of concentrated isolation from one’s fellows. But in depth of common worship it is as if we found our separate lives were all one life, within whom we live and move and have our being.

- Thomas Raymond Kelly

topic: Moving, Depth, Doe, Separate Lives

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Life, Positive Thinking, Addiction, Life Wisdom, Meaning Life

And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Brother, Past, Self, Cold Mountain, Separate Lives

I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests. I have a ranch with livestock and horses. I didn't always get my self-esteem and identity from acting. I never worked unless I wanted to. I never did anything just to do it, just for the paycheck. I always did things that I liked.

- Ricky Schroder

topic: Horse, Self Esteem, Acting, Livestock, Separate Lives

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

- Hannah More

topic: Faith, Heart, Men, Separate Lives

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

- Hugh Hefner

topic: Men, Ideas, Single Life, Single Man, Separate Lives

My own guess is that quite quickly the machine intelligence will start dreaming machine dreams and thinking machine thoughts, both of which would totally incomprehensible to us. This would then lead to each species, we and the machines, moving off on to its own separate life trajectory.

- John L. Casti

source: "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

topic: Dream, Moving, Thinking, Separate Lives