Biography Quotes
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"From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge."
"How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves."
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"The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science."
"You have a life; make a success of it."
"But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist."
"It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed."
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
"Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible."
"Of the classic fIve W's and an H, Amy's approach seemed to be that when you have a handle on the WHO, the rest will more or less reveal itself accordingly."
"All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."
"Sometimes we have spent so long in the cage that it feels safer to be trapped inside."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Liberty is about being free and is granted by laws and conventions and government permissions. Freedom is about feeling free, and the only permission you need for that is your own."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"I am a Freedom Seeker and I choose to feel free."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"I am a Freedom Seeker, willing and able to choose my own path."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"I am a Freedom Seeker, committed to experiencing my life as my true self."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"We aren't either afraid or brave, we’re usually both."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Freedom seeking is the path to coming alive again."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Freedom is the willingness and ability to choose your own path and experience your life as your true self."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"We all have the innate capacity to feel free."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"If you can choose your way into a cage, you can choose your way out."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"While you cannot always change your situation, you can always change the way you respond to it."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"The journey of the Freedom Seeker isn’t always easy. But it is essential, and it is urgent, for it is the path to coming alive again."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Having something is not always better than not having it."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"It’s dangerous to be grateful for the cage that traps you."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"If you’re trapped in a cage, you don’t want to start being grateful for the protection of the bars. You need to be grateful that there are gaps in between them so you can see what’s on the other side."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Escape is a process, not a pill."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"You are not alone. There are Freedom Seekers everywhere."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Deep down we all know that freedom is a choice, yet so many of us don’t feel that truth."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"In finding the courage and confidence to escape our cages and shine, we help others do the same."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Your heart knows there is a greater version of your life available to you."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"The feeling of freedom is as precious as a fortune waiting to be told."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Live more. Worry less. Do what you love."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"When you are trapped in a cage with broken wings, freedom can seem like a faraway deeply buried treasure. But it is always within reach."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Freedom is found within, in the shape of our laughter and the way we love, in the truths that we live by and the stories we become"
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Freedom wanders in the landscape of the mind, and nourishes the deepest yearnings of the soul."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Feeling free is a choice that is ours for the making, ours for the taking at any time, at any age."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Freedom was my daring travel companion on the thrilling ride of life."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"We often build our lives in a way that shuts out freedom."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Freedom is found within."
Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
"Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils."
"The features of character are carved out of adversity."
"She looked Spencer over, tip to toe, as though she were considering buying him. Then she smiled her friendliest smile and said, "You're rather short, aren't you?" "Don't worry honey," said Mankiewicz, trying desperately to extinguish Spencer's glare. "He'll cut you down to size."
"After earning a degree in Marketing at Auburn University, I spent the next five years in the business world, which is a polite way of saying that I had eleven jobs in a five-year period, including door to door sales, skip tracing people who didn’t want to be found, repossessing cars and collecting on defaulted student loans. During this five-year period, I did an in-depth study of abnormal psychology and sociopathic behavior – and then I divorced him."
"If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had survived the realization that the world would not be changed by verbal innovation. It did not survive the failure of all his adult relationships. He had always treated poems as a form of private communication. He gave his songs to chansonniers, his satires to satirists. Without a constant companion, he was writing in a void."
"The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good."
"Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general."
"Suppose someone tried to write your biography. What nonsense! How much would he know? Would he know what you thought when you looked in the subway slot-machine? How brutally you spoke when you were angry? How Nature rode you with a busy spur? How you fell on your knees late at night?"
"I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me."
"It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well."
"A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness."
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