This Life Quotes
Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.
We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.
...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.