Biography Quotes

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.

~ Julian Barnes

if you want it really, you get it !!!

~ Ravinder Singh

I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in physics and philosophy and thought about those. It is a little shortened but not quite wrong to say: I thought I am not good enough for physics and I am too good for philosophy. Mathematics is in between.

~ George Pólya

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.

~ Rachel Carson

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.

~ Anne Brontë

When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences.

~ Criss Jami

Sometimes we have spent so long in the cage that it feels safer to be trapped inside.

~ Beth Kempton

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

I am a Freedom Seeker and I choose to feel free. 

~ Beth Kempton

I am a Freedom Seeker, willing and able to choose my own path.

~ Beth Kempton

I am a Freedom Seeker, committed to experiencing my life as my true self.

~ Beth Kempton

We aren't either afraid or brave, we’re usually both.

~ Beth Kempton

Freedom seeking is the path to coming alive again.

~ Beth Kempton

Freedom is the willingness and ability to choose your own path and experience your life as your true self.

~ Beth Kempton

We all have the innate capacity to feel free.

~ Beth Kempton

If you can choose your way into a cage, you can choose your way out.

~ Beth Kempton

While you cannot always change your situation, you can always change the way you respond to it.

~ Beth Kempton

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

Having something is not always better than not having it.

~ Beth Kempton

It’s dangerous to be grateful for the cage that traps you.

~ Beth Kempton

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

Escape is a process, not a pill.

~ Beth Kempton

You are not alone. There are Freedom Seekers everywhere.

~ Beth Kempton

Deep down we all know that freedom is a choice, yet so many of us don’t feel that truth.

~ Beth Kempton

In finding the courage and confidence to escape our cages and shine, we help others do the same.

~ Beth Kempton

Your heart knows there is a greater version of your life available to you.

~ Beth Kempton

The feeling of freedom is as precious as a fortune waiting to be told.

~ Beth Kempton

Live more. Worry less. Do what you love.

~ Beth Kempton

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 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 wanders in the landscape of the mind, and nourishes the deepest yearnings of the soul.

~ Beth Kempton

Feeling free is a choice that is ours for the making, ours for the taking at any time, at any age. 

~ Beth Kempton

Freedom was my daring travel companion on the thrilling ride of life.

~ Beth Kempton

We often build our lives in a way that shuts out freedom.

~ Beth Kempton

Freedom is found within.

~ Beth Kempton

Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.

~ Rick Barnett

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

~ Rick Barnett

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.

~ C. Mack Lewis

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.

~ Graham Robb

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

~ P.g. Wodehouse