In Life Quotes

we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.

I will write my way into another life.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

I have an awfully good life.

Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.

In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.

If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.

If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.

Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"

Tell a female she's thin and she's yours for life.

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?

Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

Technology doesn't have to be difficult to use or complicated. I feel technology is something that's there to make your life easier not more difficult.

I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.

We have the potential for making massive change... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths of life forms on the Earth.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

My life is not my own business.

Life is not always what we think it is.

Life is what you make it so make the best of it.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

And to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us.

The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right.

Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.