Quotes of Deborah Tannen

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Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

- Deborah Tannen

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“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living. ”

- Steven Spielberg

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it! ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ She believed she could so she did. ”

- Unknown

“ Legacy is greater than currency ”

- Gary Vaynerchuk

“ Repentance is not at an end, Instead it’s the beginning of how it ends. ”

- Yeth Bisto

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe. ”

- Patricia Lynn

“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ I’ll hold you in my heart, till I can hold you in my arms. ”

- Unknown

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali