The Life Quotes
Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
The most important thing is to figure out Your goal in life. If Your intentions and methods are correct, there is no way You will not achieve it.
However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.
Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person .
The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.
To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?
At any moment, I could start being a better person...but which moment should I choose?
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.
One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid, usually standing from behind.
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.
I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.
Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.
In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.
All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.
Our relationship with Christ is something we cannot just turn on and off. It is a part of us. On our best, and our worst, we are in this thing for life.
Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.