This Life Quotes

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

"And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

All doors open to courtesy.

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

If you expect your life to be full of ups and downs, then your mind will be much more peaceful.

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

When I die and I'm lucky enough or fortunate enough and brave enough throughout my life to get into Heaven and I see Octavia Spencer sitting there then all is good.

I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

I think that the needs in human life will change and grow and evolve. I do think that that the importance will always be grander than you would ever believe them to be.

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.

We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

It was the Lord's love and my recognition of His presence in my life that made me realize how important it was to give Him the glory and be there for Him.

The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It's time to change. It's time to live life at a new level.

To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable.

I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.

Life will pay any price you ask of it.

As long as you have a set of beliefs or lack of skills that make you feel you have at the effect of life, you're going to have enormous stress and the quality of your life will go down.

Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.