On Life Quotes

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

The past is what you take with you.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's one of my main goals in life.

Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.