The Life Quotes

To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.

The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

God takes full responsibility for the life wholly devoted to Him.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.

All my life I've believed in myself. And I have never given up.

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

A lot of it revolves around food with me because a lot of my life does in a way.

POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

More depends on my walk than talk.

You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.

Never give up and take nothing for granted in life.

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.

He who understands nature walks close with God.

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.