On Life Quotes
A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
The records of every great religion show the presence of such Supermen, so full of the Divine Life that again and again they have been taken as the very representatives of God Himself.
What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.
Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body.
You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.
The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.
The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.
I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.
Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland.
Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.
life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.
I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration arrives, you are ready to be at the disposal of inspiration.
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.
There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.
When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.
I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
