On Life Quotes

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties

Happiness is speechless.

With age, art and life become one.

When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am.

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

Don't piss your life away with suicide...it's a bullshit way out.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun.

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through

All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

I've thought about living the koala's life, but you may need to petition the government quarantine rules to make it happen. Quarantine would make me extra grumpy.

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.

If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".

He loved what he did, he loved being on Countdown - he just loved life

To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

The number one cause of unfulfilled potential is never deciding that NOW matters more than any other time in your life.

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

No one can truly know Christ unless they follow him in life.

Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

If you appreciate your life, if you appreciate your job, if you appreciate yourself, if you appreciate your surroundings-poor or rich, whatever they are-you are divine.

I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like.

There's no war that will end all wars.

When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation

If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it's so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it.

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.