The Life Quotes

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Freedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the fast and they should be with us after the fast.

In my life there is an infinite supply of love, it is in exhaustible, I can never use it all in this lifetime so I don't have to be sparing with it!

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.

So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.

We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who are can emerge.

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

Perfume is magic. It's mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

I didn't really give a sh** what's going on in the rest of the world. I just didn't. I just wanted to focus on me, me, me, my career, my life, just me - blinders.

I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life and I think most people feel that way.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

I always tell people: Life is the dance between what you desire most and what you fear most. You've got to be able to deal with the threshold of control.

Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong.

Probability is the very guide of life.

The spirit is the true self.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

Worship is living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing.

If you really want to change someone's life today, don't just pray for them... pray with them.

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

Beyond Brookledge may be the most incredible weekend of entertainment I've experienced in my life.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.