This Life Quotes
We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.
He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.
You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!
We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.
Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.
I have always enjoyed being a part of his life. I've always loved him, and he's always loved me.
you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?
there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.
It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.
You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what's special in you.
What's on your mind becomes what's in your life. So think the thoughts you want to see.
The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.
He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power.
In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?
I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when...you're having a seizure and they're holding you.
To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.
When you help someone through a health issue, positively impact someone's personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender life-bonding loyalty.
I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.
Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.
People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.
People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.
I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.
Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.
Living a life of service, rather than one of expression, is a serious mistake, because expressing who we really are is the greatest service we can perform.
The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.
You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.
