Two Lives Quotes:

If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out.

- Jamie Bell

topic: Lying, Two, Way, Two Lives

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one

- Tom Hiddleston

topic: Life, Two, Religion, Two Lives

As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.

- Gabrielle Zevin

topic: Heart, Two, Long, Two Lives

We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

topic: Inspirational, Two, Given, Two Lives

He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.

- Anton Chekhov

source: Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2943, Delphi Classics

topic: Running, Two, People, Kernel, Relative Truth

There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.

- Glennon Melton

source: Glennon Doyle Melton (2014). “Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dream, Destiny, Two, Two Lives

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

- Arthur Machen

source: Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

topic: Men, Two, Heaven, Two Lives

If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

- Robert Browning

source: 'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 46

topic: Life, Two, Scar, Two Lives

This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.

- Che Guevara

topic: Running, Dream, Mean, Two Lives

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Humility, Two, People, Life Is Difficult, Vicissitudes

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

- William James

source: William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.161, Booklassic

topic: Spiritual, Two, Natural, Two Lives

If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Mistake, Life Lesson, Two, Two Lives

Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. 'There is a bridge that links what I do with what I would like to do,' he thinks. Slowly, his dreams take over his everyday life, and then he realises that he is ready for the thing he always wanted. Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Dream, Warrior, Two Lives

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Two, Soul, Mind, Soul Life, Two Lives

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

- Bernard Malamud

source: "The Natural: A Novel".

topic: Live Life, Two, Suffering, Two Lives

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

- Greta Garbo

topic: Life, Movie, Two, Two Lives

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Heart, Character, Men, Two Lives, Art History

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Life, Eye, Two, Two Lives

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Thinking, Two, People, Two Lives

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

- Ruth Benedict

source: Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.3, Transaction Publishers

topic: Two, World, Gamer, Two Lives

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Two, Tragedy, Shame, Two Lives

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

- Pierre Bonnard

topic: Art, Practice, Two, Two Lives

I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.

- Lauren Myracle

topic: Girl, Atlanta, Two, Southern Girl, Atlanta Georgia

I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.

- Connie Kalitta

source: Source: blog.caranddriver.com

topic: Two, World, Lucky, Racers, Happy With My Life

I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

- Eddie Adams

topic: Men, Two, Police, Street Corners, Two Lives

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Life, Death, Men, Two Lives

There has never been a merging of two lives where significant problems of daily living did not occur. One way or another, your relationship is going to be affected. The only question is how. There's a big difference between knowing and doing. It's not what happens between partners that determines the outcome of a relationship, it's how they handle what happens. If all you deal with in your relationship is problems, then you will have a problem relationship. If you want your pound of flesh with full acknowledgement that you're right, your future will be dim.

- Phil McGraw

topic: Two, Differences, Knowing, Daily Living, Knowing And Doing

We don't have two lives-a "spiritual" life here and a "regular" life there. Our life in Christ is one unified lifestyle, and it is who we are wherever we are.

- Steve McVey

source: Steve McVey (2011). “52 Lies Heard in Church Every Sunday”, p.93, Harvest House Publishers

topic: Spiritual, Two, Who We Are, Two Lives

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

- Rem Koolhaas

source: "The Invention and Reinvention of the City: An Interview with Rem Koolhaas". Interview with Paul Fraioli, jia.sipa.columbia.edu. April 19, 2012.

topic: Two, Building, Makers, Two Lives

There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.

- Annalee Skarin

topic: Beautiful, Destiny, Men, Fingerprints, Snowstorms

The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.118, Modern Library

topic: Two, Understanding, Soul, Two Lives

We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.

- Richard Henry Stoddard

source: Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”

topic: Beautiful, Real, Heart, Two Worlds, Two Lives

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

- Roberto Clemente

source: "Roberto Clemente Day at Three Rivers Stadium". pgdigs.tumblr.com. July 25, 1970.

topic: Two, Pittsburgh, Way, Two Lives

I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.

- Roger Federer

source: "In Their Own Words – Federer, Wawrinka, Anderson, Halep, Azarenka, Pennetta and Kvitova". U.S. Open Press Conference, www.tennispanorama.com. September 9, 2015.

topic: Two, Might, Steps, Two Lives

Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world Jewish and Gentile...I do not believe that this primal difference between Gentile and Jew is reconcilable...The difference between us is abysmal...You might say: 'Well, let us exist side by side and tolerate each other. We will not attack your morality, nor you ours.' But the misfortune is that the two are not merely different; they are opposed in mortal enmity. No man can accept both, or, accepting either, do otherwise than despise the other.

- Maurice Samuel

topic: Lying, Believe, Men, Two Worlds, Two Lives

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

- Robert Breault

topic: Carpe Diem, Two, Ifs, Two Lives

Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Children, Believe, Emotional, Heredity, Emotional Life

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

- Rex Reed

topic: Wise, Two, Vines, Old Wisdom, Two Lives

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Life, Two, Secret, Two Lives

You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing of silence, fire has its cold half. I love you in order to begin to love you, to start infinity again and never to stop loving you: that’s why I do not love you yet. I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held keys in my hand: to a future of joy- a wretched, muddled fate- My love has two lives, in order to love you. -Sonnet XLIV

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Love You, Fate, Fire, I Love You Because, Stop Loving You

Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

- Alan Lightman

topic: Life, Future, Two, Two Lives

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.76, Xist Publishing

topic: Live Life, Reality, Two, Negation, Two Lives

I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Boys, Thinking, Names, Two Lives

But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Mean, Healing, Past, Two Lives

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

- Steven Pressfield

source: Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.20, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

topic: Life, Two, Resistance, Two Lives

If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening".

- Milan Kundera

topic: Light, Two, Compare, Two Lives

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Two, Firsts, Delight, Two Lives

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two lives or stories alike.

- Robin Jones Gunn

topic: Writing, Two, Creative, Two Lives

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

- Jess Walter

topic: Life, Two, Forever, Two Lives