On Life Quotes

Aligning yourself with the intelligence of the universe means coming to understand your life's purpose and applying it fearlessly to life's circumstances.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

I've learned to control everything. I don't get angry at anything. Somebody can do me wrong. That's life. What good is it to get angry?

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.

In life, nothing happens to you. It happens for you.

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

For a long time a very strong and deep attraction has drawn me to missionary life.

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life. I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment. But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity.

Looking at my life I see that only Love Has been my soul’s companion From deep inside My soul cries out: Do not wait, surrender For the sake of Love.

Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings

if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.

In your arms was still delight, Quiet as a street at night; And thoughts of you, I do remember, Were green leaves in a darkened chamber, Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Have you ever thought about letting Cheesus into your Life?

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.

There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

If you see life as an opportunity, or if you see helping others as an opportunity, then all of a sudden you become joyous. You want to go forward.

I am in favor of an idea that's been around for a number of years, which is to reward people who are willing to give a kidney and save the life of a stranger.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.