This Life Quotes
We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.
To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?
There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.
The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process
Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.