On Life Quotes
Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"
I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.
A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.
People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?
If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.
I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.
Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level... requires us to do something uncomfortable.
The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.
Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.
Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.
Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.
Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.
Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.
So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.
We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide.
Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet.
The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.
I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?
Never underestimate your talents, and try not to compare or wish for the talents of others. Focus on and accept the talents you have, and you will find great fulfillment in life.
Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.
We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.
I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.
Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.
I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.
What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.