About Life Quotes
I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.
My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.
And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.
The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.
You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.
I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.
A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.
For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.
Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.
I gave my life for freedom-This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.
The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.
I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.