The Life Quotes
He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.
My philosophy of life is that I am deeply, deeply serious about my work and for the rest I like to have a few laughs.
Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.
What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.
She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.
God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.
Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you
Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.
Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.