This Life Quotes

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Life is taking you somewhere, listen to the messages, they will repeat until you follow their call.

There is no need for revenge. Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you.

Life is a reflection of what you think. If your thoughts are negative, the world you see will be the same.

In the end you get what you deserve, the amount of effort you put in determines the amount of joy that you receive.

There is no need to drag yourself through life, let go of the struggle & give yourself the time & love to find balance.

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

My mind is tranquil. I allow peace into my life

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

I kind of limp along like so many of us do in these realms. Occasionally I've felt the grace of another presence in my life. But I can't develop any kind of spiritual structure on that.

If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.

Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.

Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.

There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

Whatever you accomplish in life is a manifestation not as much of what you do, as of what you believe you deserve.

The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.

It's a large as life and twice as natural

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

Dating is probably the most important aspect of a single person's life.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter.