On Life Quotes

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.

If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

For life is holy and every moment is precious.

Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

You can't go through life trying to please everyone.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way.

Death is not a disaster. Too many births - that is the real disaster.

Whatever happens - ultimately, life corrects itself.

When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.

A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.

Spirituality is not about becoming special. It is about becoming one with everything.

One truth I know for sure is that I am so blessed in my life.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

At times life becomes too busy for religious thoughts.

Those who are the happiest are not neccessarily those for whom life has been easiest.

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.

A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness.

Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened!

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.