On Life Quotes

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection."

Measure your life in love.

I spent my life learning to feel less.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

Hell is life drying up.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life.

The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is.

Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.

You will never enjoy life if you do not enjoy yourself.

Through my obedience to God, He has been able to use my life to help others. It's been a great journey and I'm looking forward to all the things God has in the future.

It's very difficult to resort to hating [Pablo Escobar] when all he gave you his entire life was love and all the best he ever had.

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

Surrender to life today. Don't fight anything. Just enjoy the flow.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time