This Life Quotes

I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.

I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.

Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.

There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress

You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.

Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives.

Think Big! Expand your thinking first and your situation will soon follow.

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that!

It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'

When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

Work is your life, it’s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.