Life Journeys Quotes

Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

You reflect on the people who used to be in your life, and it's like, 'Wow, I can't believe that person was ever really in my life.' But people are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things.

It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Every young man will make a mistake in his life, I bet you.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

I love to hear stories about people who got to places where they are today. Those kinds of things are very interesting to me.

We just write about the stuff that happens to us.

Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.

I glance into the faces of all these people out for a Sunday stroll, but I'm not seeing eyes and noses and mouths. I'm seeing stories. Every person has a story. All the hopes and dreams. And fears. And secrets. In every face.

The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn to some common experience, or maybe we're pulled in by the people we care about. Our friends, our families can drag us onto coasters and Tilt-A-Whirls that are really meant for them. But in the end, no matter whose rides we find ourselves on, the experience is all our own.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

Everyone has a story, and the story changes, and the more I can root into the truth of things - it's so hard - I don't think anyone ever really puts it all together. But somewhere along the way it all became fused.

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.

I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.

People I knew in high school have gone in many directions, as I have gone in my particular direction. They now have different and absorbing interests of their own, just as I have mine.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

Our people [Mormons] are free to live their life as they please. They have to make choices.

To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.

From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.

I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.