This Life Quotes

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.

No life can be dreary when work is delight.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.

When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man)

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.

No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.

I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.