The Life Quotes
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.
I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.
Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.
People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?
I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.
All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.
Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning.
For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.
To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.
Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds
My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.
Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.
I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That's why I write about the things I write about.
I think fashion is just part of my life and if it hadn't of been fashion then it would have been something else.
It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life
Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.
The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and my dog, I don't talk to anybody, and I just write.
It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.
