#lifetime

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#comic #comic strip #drawings #enjoy #imagine

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#ago #asleep #been #church #churches

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime. ↗

— Stanford Moore

#benefit #concern #dedicating #endeavors #estate

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. ↗

— Philip Wylie

#change #citizen #delinquent #good #good teacher

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? ↗

— Gao Xingjian

#authors #continued #could #enduring #great

Once upon a time, began the story of you. Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened. And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are. Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#events #future #life #lifetime #past

From the house of unbelief to true religion is a single breath; From the world of doubt to certainty is a single breath; Enjoy this precious single breath, for the harvest of our whole lives is that same one breath. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#certainty #doubt #lifetime #lives #religion

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. ↗

— Maxwell Anderson

#ground #higher #inhabit #lifetime #lift

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#fortunate #happen #happens #i #i love

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ↗

— Tony Benn

#life #lifetime #moment #moments #most