The Life Quotes
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.
There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.
I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.
Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.
I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.
I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.
The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.
When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.
He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.
Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.
This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.
Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.
God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.
We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.
This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.
