This Life Quotes

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

The painting has a life of its own

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.