The Life Quotes

Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.

The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I’m afraid.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

love's just a waste of energy and life's just a waste of time so why don't we get together we could waste everything tonight

Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

For things to change, you have to change.

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

The horse can just be a great vehicle for some people to overcome things in their life that they might not be able to overcome otherwise.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.