On Life Quotes

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it.

There is within each of us the possibility of magnificence. Every moment is an opportunity to make it manifest. Let the spirit awaken you to a miraculous life.

No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!

Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

Success means pursuing a career that inspires you-brings passion to your life and totally absorbs your energy.

You could say that my life's a mess. But, I'm still looking pretty in this dress.

I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.

Life has no remote get up and change it yourself.

Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

I want to give my kids the world, but I also want them to appreciate everything, to succeed, to be good people, to enjoy life. This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.

I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.

I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in others, all apparently running parallel. But parallel lines never meet.

Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.

And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.