About Life Quotes
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
I'm very active when I'm not pregnant, but I think fitness should be a natural part of your life, not something you have to force yourself to do.
Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe.
I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.
There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.
A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.
The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.
Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.
Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.
The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.
It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.
Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.
Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.
I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.
You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.
Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?
This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder
There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.
Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making
So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break
Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.
...people with nothing to declare carry the most.
Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.
Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.