The Life Quotes
Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.
There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way.
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology.
There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.
People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer.
Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.
My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.
Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.
All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.
For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.
I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.
I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.
If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.
The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.
My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.
Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone's purpose in life except yours.
Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.
Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.
Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!
Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life ... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.
