The Life Quotes

I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.

Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.

There’s a lot that is good in your life-don’t take it for granted. Don’t get so focused on the struggles that you miss the gift of today

Invite good things into your life. When you confess good things based on what God is saying, you'll begin to see more favor!

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

The keys to life are running and reading.

Life is...the moments that take your breath away.

I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

I just loved being around everybody. We just found a rhythm with each other that you want to get on everything you ever do in your life.

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?