This Life Quotes

Love is the very essence of life.

It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

life is limited so people will appreciate it because there’s a limit, we would try our best to live.

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.

Art's too long and life's too short.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

I will always support legislation which respects and values life.

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

Eva [Braun] loved [Adolf] Hitler and he was the only man in her life. She flirted and danced with other men but never would she have done more than that.

I just want to live my life the best way I can and enjoy the moment that I have off the court because you need to find a good balance. I think this is very important.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

Spend your life lifting people up, not putting them down.

Celebrate even small victories.

Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

Believe in love at first sight.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

An empowering perspective gives birth to an empowered life.

The path of least resistance leads to a life of no fulfillment.

Life is a series of hard and easy runs.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.

Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.

Find friends and not lovers; you will win the game of life.

Your job is to control yourself. Your job is to discipline yourself. Your job is to deal with everything in life with affection, love and kindness.

You know how to drive a car, but you do not know how to drive your life!

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.