This Life Quotes

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you

The girl that I wanna save is like a danger to my health Try being wit somebody that wanna be somebody else.

These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position.

I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

My life is so different than I thought it would be.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.

The Lord wants us to be filled with hope-not just because it points us to a brighter tomorrow, but because it changes the quality of our lives.

If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.

... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.

There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.