This Life Quotes
I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.
Life is like riding a bicycle. If you want to stay balanced you've got to keep moving forward.
My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.
We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.
I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.
Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
As a student of life I just want to be constantly progressing mentally, physically, and spiritually.
I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.
We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.
For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer...be happier...grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.
