The Life Quotes

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.

Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?

Life is not fair and people are not equal.

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.

I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

...He palmed up the life Alert. Death Alert was more like it: Help, I haven't fallen and I'm standing up-can you come and rectify this problem? - Isaac

Everyone wants to get better. You go through life, you want to shift and change and get better. No one ever says, "I'm better." They say, "I wanna get better."

Believe in the holy contour of life.

I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.

The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.

In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

Responsibility means being able to respond to whatever situation you may face in your life.

The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

My life is brillant, My love is pure.

In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

People can make a real difference. One person at a time, one job at a time, one life at a time.

Our fears can cause us to miss out on a lot of experiences and golden opportunities. Don't let your fears rob you of your life.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.