The Life Quotes
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.
Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!
Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.
The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.
Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.
I have very strongly this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.
For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.
Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.
To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it.
...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.
A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.
The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.
...just being ordinary in and of itself is and expression of divinity; the truth of one's real self can be discovered through the pathway of everyday life.
A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.