The Life Quotes

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Music is really driving my whole life.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

Short cuts make long delays.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

To travel is to live.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.