On Life Quotes

Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

He earned every precious beautiful moment life gave back to him.

Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.

Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.

I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.

Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.

Life is short (You need Python)

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force.

Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

My sister called me "Buzzard" when I was a baby - she couldn't say "Brother" so I've been Buzz my whole life.

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

Poetry is a necessity of life.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about life on earth.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

A life without a dog is a mistake.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.