My Life Quotes

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

No one gives you anything in life. You gotta work hard and go after it to get it.

As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.

To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the Boomerang Effect: Give out what you most want to see come back.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

Once you learn to remain calm under the stressful circumstances of a fight, you will have no trouble remaining calm under the stressful circumstances of life.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Even though I have many obstacles in my life, I don't want people to feel bad for me.

If you want to become something, achieve something in life, then always listen to your heart.

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

Take the reins of your life in your hands every day. Get up and put a smile on your face, and feel grateful for this gift in your life.

A man's life is what he thinks about all day long.

You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He’s more important to me than winning or losing or whether I’m playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Action expresses priorities.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.