In Life Quotes
Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.
The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.
I hate McDonald's. I don't want to order my dinner by yelling into a clown's mouth. If I want my face in a clown's mouth, I'll tongue kiss Glenn Beck.
You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?
The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.
To do more, is not necessarily to do better.
By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.
We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?
What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?
Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?
Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.
What gets measured gets improved.
I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.
I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'
My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.
I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.