On Life Quotes

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.

You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.

There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.

Ever since I met [my wife], my life has been different. I have what I want. I have my Jewel in Millie.

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

Courage conquers all things.

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

Life's not all beer and skittles

I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.

Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.

Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

Get as much out of life as you possibly can with all the passion that goes with it. Then give it back with all the love and respect it deserves.

To think and to live missionally means seeing all life as a way to be engaged with the mission of God in the world.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.