The Life Quotes

The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.

People who do well in life understand things that other people don't understand.

I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.

We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me- life is hard, but God is good.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

Always examine the dice.

She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

You're just a prayer away from a change of heart.

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

You don't need the fame to be vital.

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion.

My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.