About Life Quotes
Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.
Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.
No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.
There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.
There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.
God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for.
I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.
Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.
The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.
Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.
Learn to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life... if we look closely we see they... bring us just the right information at just the right time.
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.
Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.
If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.
Once you realize you're a spiritual being, you see life so differently. You respect things. You're more responsible to yourself and others.
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.