The Life Quotes

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Guilt is the thief of life.

When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.

Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

There is nothing better in life than sliding down snow before flying through the air.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

Faith that doesn't affect your life isn't really faith.

I share every aspect of my life with the internet. Whether or not that's a good thing I don't know.

Today I begin a new life for I am the master of my abilities and today is going to be a great and beautiful day!

The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything material or external.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.

There's not a party, a congressman, a senator, etc. elected that will fix your life. YOU have to fix YOUR life.

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

Your life can be what you want it to be... You'll make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

Everyday, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals, but helps the environment.