Life Quotes

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

Courage and initiative come when you understand your purpose in life.

Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

When your self and your life belong to your being, your self opens, your life opens, your being comes in, and it will have everything. It is the single greatest turning point in your life.

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.