On Life Quotes
We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.
My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them?
To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.
You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.
I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.
Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.
Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.
But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.
I have this attitude to life that is not to take anything too seriously and not worry about anything, and when I met him I wasn't too nervous and I was being myself.
I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.
Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.
If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.
Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.
