The Life Quotes
The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.
If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.
There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be ok.
The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.
I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.
Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life.
You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!
Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.
Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.
Well, follow who you want to follow. It depends on what your fantasies are. You understand. People have different fantasies in life. The suburban culture. Always dream of being gangstas.
God has a purpose and plan for your life and nothing can stand in the way of it - except you. Are you ready to listen? It's time to stand up and be bold for Jesus.
I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.
A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.
I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?
I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.
The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.
It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead
I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. I'd rather be an honest friend than a phony lover.
My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.
If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.
You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Life is not about win-and-lose. Life is about being or not being, expressing or not expressing, who you are.
People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.