The Life Quotes
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.
There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
When I go and work with people, I never say, 'Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.' It's like a diet. You've got to maintain a discipline and ritual in your life to keep a certain figure.
I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.
To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.
The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?
Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
Every life, I think, has that potential because I believe each life is a gift of God... because God is love.
Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.
The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.
I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.