This Life Quotes

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.

Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied.

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.