The Life Quotes

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

The business of books is the business of life.

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

Let's have a day in the life of Gerard." Going to get coffee! Going to get coffee!' That's all it would be.

The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

Slowly I came to know that the depth of our heartbreaks determines the depth of our faith. God gives us everything to conquer the big and the little hurts of life.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

I do not need a man. I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.

Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life.

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

Your strength is how calmly, quietly and peacefully you face life.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself.

I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

My environment can give me relief from sin and tension, only the Lord can cure it.

Anger is inside you, revealed by an outside source.

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

I live for competition. It makes my life complete.

My family has been my biggest inspiration - they are true role models in my life and career and they always will be.

'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives.

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.