This Life Quotes
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy
Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!
All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!'
Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.
Penguins mate for life. Which doesn't really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It's not like they're gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday.
What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.
If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.
If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.
I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.
Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?
You don't want to live in the past. Everything in life is in the future. You don't want to continue to be buried in the past.
1.If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.
The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.
God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.
If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.
