Life shaping Quotes

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.

I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.

I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women.

Everybody I interacted with in my life, directly or indirectly, has placed a fingerprint upon my life. That combination has made me who I am.

I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

I always thought that a film about how my father's life was shaped in his early years in Hong Kong would be a worthwhile story to share so we could better understand him as a human being and a warrior.

Education is soul crafting.

I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life, and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.

When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life.

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes we're not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.

Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

Simply writing a Ph.D. or academic book was unlikely to play much of a role in helping shape people's lives as I wanted.

How I was raised is what I am today.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.