The Life Quotes

Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

At least once in their life, every man should feel what it's like to wear high heels.

Art is not a career - it's a life.

I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.

Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.

If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

I can't cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce.

Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question.

See into life, don't just look at it

Life is not about what you can accumulate. I learned to live when I learned to give.

Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours.

I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

Life is, of course, terrible.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

I've been very lucky. I've had my problems in the past, I've had my troubles, but you move on. I had a great life and I am really thankful for it.

Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.