This Life Quotes

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

Life is the best party I've ever been invited to.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.

I don't know what my life needs but I know I need some balance.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.

When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

My weight and my pant size are the absolute last thing I'm concerned about. People who talk and judge pregnant women's weight need to get a life!

I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.

I have the greatest husband. The baby is my main focus right now. We're both so excited. I mean, this is definitely the happiest moment in my life.

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

Build a life, don't live one...

I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job.

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.