The Life Quotes

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

I trust the flow of life.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

A need is life seeking expression within us.

Your life wasn't meant to be a struggle; it was meant to be an adventure. Start living the adventure now!

Finding your life less than perfect is a waste of your time.

You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

The bottom line is that my life has already almost slipped away from me. I have two choices: I can end it or I can fight like hell to save it.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.

All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.

It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.

If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.

Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

The big art is our life.

Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child, Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.

Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

I've never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life.

I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life.

It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.

I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.