This Life Quotes
Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.
You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".
Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.
. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.
Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.
I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.
I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.
The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.
As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.
So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.
Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.
Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.
The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.
Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
