Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.
Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.
Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Am I really gonna deny someone the opportunity of a lifetime just because they met me 5 easters early?
In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with. . . where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms to the minarchists' ideals. The closer we get, the better, but I see no reason not to aspire for the best government as Thoreau imagined it: none at all. It's certainly more consistently idealistic than what the minarchists imagine, and yet it's at least possible, whereas the existence of a lasting, minimal state is a hopeless fantasy.
To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.
I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.
Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
In my lifetime, I've met a lot of people who never rode a wave, but we share the same consciousness. Surfing is a kind of a state of mind. . . I mean, it's a feeling that people have about their life that really, in a way, kind of makes them a surfer.
It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them.
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
I had always wanted to name a daughter Hailey, after Halley's comet from Once in a Lifetime.
[On President Clinton's address:] It was the worst inaugural address of our lifetime, and I think the only controversy will be between those who say it was completely and utterly banal and those who say, 'Well, not completely and utterly.
The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.