This Life Quotes
I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.
Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.
Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to the things that give you trouble.
In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.
Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life.
Have faith in the magic and miracles of life, for only those that do get to experience them.
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.
... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.
I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.
Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.
Friendship means only one thing: you don't create fences around you, but try to remove fences from the life of another person.
Ingrown anger is like an ingrown hair. The pain it creates in life is unbearable.
You have to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.
Life is a lie if truth is not found. Truth is just an idea if it is not lived. It is living that matters.
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.
Fill yourself with love. Then you will learn everything you ever need to know about God and life.
I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.
It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.