We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good. Donald Miller
We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them. Christopher McDougall
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.' John Green
When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young. Dennis Rodman
When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman. John Eldredge
When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. Doris Lessing
When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing. Lou Gehrig
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. Tonynn robbins