This Life Quotes

Life wears us down. We all die here. Depending upon the way you expose yourself to energies and powers and forces will determine whether you have a lot of energy or you lose energy.

If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.

Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.

If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.

The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

Accept life on life's terms and just let things go.

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

The best of the people are the first to greet others.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

My life is about building and working and wrenching on some cars.

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

Our words can have power that we don't think we have in everyday life - anyone can make a difference.

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

A man is known by the company he keeps

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

We often despise what is most useful to us.

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

You have to invent life.

I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.