The Life Quotes

In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.

There is no normality in life.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

You are the architect of your own life.

Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

The only constant in life is change

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.