This Life Quotes

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

How can I tell the signals and the signs By which one heart another heart divines? How can I tell the many thousand ways By which it keeps the secret it betrays?

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

She'll soon forget." "Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

People need to be able take the hint on Snapchat, like in real life. If you're always the snapper and never the snappee, then maybe they're just not that into you.

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.