The Life Quotes
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.
We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.
The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?
Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.
You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.
Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.
My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.
The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.
She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.
Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
