About Life Quotes

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion.

The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.

God has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And he's given us the indwelling strength and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The rest is up to us.

We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.

Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.

Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

All human life can be found in an airport.

Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

Make sure you're doing something that you love, that you're willing to do for the rest of your life. If you're doing it for money, that's the only thing you won't make.

Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.

Life is simply a vacation from the infinite

A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.

I've always had life threats, and they've always been for real.

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.