On Life Quotes

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.

You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

I never knew that ["Hank Zipzer"] would happen in my life. It is one of the greatest things. It is like a gift from God.

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living.

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

It is throwing our life away, to think of the wrong things.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

All the women in my life have really made my life what it is, and I feel so fortunate, so whole because of them.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Music gave me something to do in my life.

When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

May you always work like you don't need the money; May you always love like you've never been hurt; and May you always dance like there's nobody watching.

If you want to find greater happiness and fulfillment in your life, you must begin to understand and live in harmony with the law of attraction.

It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.

Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.