About Life Quotes
If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!
The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.
Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.
Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.
What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.
The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.
Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with family and friends.
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved
The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'
The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.