Life Is Quotes
I'm always surprised reading my old journals. There's this idea that life is hard now, but then I'll reach that moment where it'll change. But there's no summit. It's a constant climb.
Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.
Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it.
If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.
My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.
The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.
Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.
