The Life Quotes

Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.

When you have kids, they are the consistent things in your life. They don't change no matter what's going on. They love you. They are more honest than anybody will be.

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

love is the every only god

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

I don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.