On Life Quotes

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

Virtue is its own punishment.

No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it.

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.

I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

My philosophy towards life is to enjoy it to the fullest and have fun. I am one of those 'laugh-out-loud' kinds. I am quirky, yet witty.

My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward.

Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.

Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

Life's better without braces.

Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience.

If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.