The Life Quotes

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

If you look up into His face and say, "Yes, Lord, whatever it costs," at that moment He'll flood your Life with His presence and power.

To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life.

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

Magick is the Art of Life itself.

I think that first love defines you and your relationships, for the rest of your life. I had a great first love. My heart was ripped out of my chest, but I think that happens to everyone.

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

This long disease, my life.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just enjoy the day you're in. Really make the most of it.

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

It's always been eclectic; you never know what you're going to get.

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.

Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.