Life Is Quotes
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.
Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.
Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.
I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.
The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
One thing is clear: My life is completely different than it was before the kidnapping.
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.
One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant.
Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.
The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.
I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.
The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.
Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living.
Time is old. Life is short. Only this moment is guaranteed to you. Fight hard to do the things you dream of. You may not have another chance.
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.
Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.
Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose.
Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
Life is so tough. I don't know how old you are, but I've seen so much in a wink. One phone call and your life is changed forever. We all know that. You better laugh at everything.
Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.
Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.
