This Life Quotes

Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.

This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.

The good life is one that's artistically made.

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

Meditate on your own and refine your consciousness. Tighten up your life. Constantly examine your life and look for weak points. You know what's going on in your life.

Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.

Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.

Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve.

You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.

There are future lives. It is not necessary to cram everything into this lifetime. You can enjoy this lifetime, go with the flow, and know it will lead you to a better life in your next incarnation.

The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

I'm fully aware that 'Doctor Who' will always, always be part of my life, and that's not something I would run away from in the slightest. I wear it with pride, definitely.

I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.

The HoneyLine is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.

it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.

As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)

Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.