This Life Quotes

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong.

God of peace, you are at the center of my life, a strong refuge of peace in the whirlwind of my pain. I look to you for strength and a constant assurance of hope.

To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.

The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.

People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.

Ask for what you want. Believe that you deserve it, and then allow Life to give it to you.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

I'm just trying to do the opposite of left, as long as there's the opposite of death, ya know Yes, ya test and I just might bring the opposite of life, til' there's no one the opposite of right

Every time you achieve a dream, you must set another one. Because that will strengthen your path. Or you will become dead, because if you have no dreams, you have no life.

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.

My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn’t know was possible to do.

In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.

Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.