On Life Quotes

Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave.

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.

Oh my god what am I doing with my life?

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.

All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my life away.

Use all your hidden forces. Do not miss The purpose of this life, and do not wait For circumstance to mould or change your fate.

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

I tasted life.

The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

If you are going to win the fight of your life, you can't be afraid to fight.

You can't live off potential for the rest of your life. So get up, get out and go get you some!

Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

I love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill.

. . . but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute - look at it and really see it - live it - and never give it back.

I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.

Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.

I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.

If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.

The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.