Life Altering Quotes

“The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.”
― Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart; a society in which words are holy, and the challenge of life is based upon the quest for gentle words, holy words, gentle truths, holy truths.

I try to imagine for myself a world in which the words one gives one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's words carefully, like precious gifts, like magnificent gifts, like magnificent inheritances, for they convey an excess of what we have imagined, they bear gifts beyond imagination, they reveal and revisit the wealth of history.

How carefully, how slowly, and how lovingly we might step into our expectations of each other in such a world.”
― Patricia J. Williams, The Rooster's Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice

“Truly it was the beginning of everything that followed, the starting line of the harrowing journey disguised in the form of a simple question.

She was glad she didn't know where it would take her. Because sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged

“You know those day you sometimes have? The days that seem totally ordinary when you wake up, but by the time you go to sleep that night, your whole life is divided into before that day and after that day? This is one of those days.”
― G. Willow Wilson, Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed

“It had occurred, it hadhappened,and could never in his life be unhappened, never removed, a huge deadly black scar lasting forever.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“What was to change many lives happened, and happened very fast in the next moments.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Give me some of that rizz, my dude!" -Ezra”
― Marissa Meyer

“I didn't experience a change on the outside until I started changing on the inside.”
― Kierra C.T. Banks

“What do any of us do in the end except what we believe is right at the time, without having all of the information, without knowing how things will turn out? We leap into the darkness with our only protection our idea of what is right, and who can ask of us than that?”
― Rebecca Wait, Our Fathers

“Don't make a decision based on a season of life that will alter the rest of your life.”
― Heidi Gray McGill, Matters of the Heart

“There’s no need to rush life-changing, body-altering decisions that are difficult or impossible to reverse.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“For every generation there is a defining life-altering event, and for Guy and his like-minded cohort, it was this war;…”
― Nahlah Ayed, The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII