On Life Quotes

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

In golf as in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference.

I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.

Bob Riley, a kind soul who “treads lightly in this world,” is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.

Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

...you never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege.

Trust God for your current life circumstances and believe that He has called you this day to be courageous.

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it.

This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.

You not only choose between two ways of life but you choose between two masters.

God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.

The most thrilling thing about heaven is that Jesus Christ will be there. I will see Him face to face. Jesus Christ will meet us at the end of life's journey.

Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.

You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.