This Life Quotes
Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.
Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.
If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful.
Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.
Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?
How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.
In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
My love lives outside my window Clouds burst to give water So her love can grow My love smiles to me each morning Says she'll never leave me And I know it's so
I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.
The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.
"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.
Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.
In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'
Leave your yawns behind you and feel the tiny new breeze of life lighting up inside of you.
By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.
Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
The emotion, and the other aspect is that this relate to many different obstacle in life. Emotion, yes, I love emotion, for your information, very much so.
Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.
You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.
Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.