This Life Quotes

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Life without learning is death.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it.

Think of the most amazing thing you could possibly do with your life. Then say out loud, 'YES.'

A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.

Daily life is the enemy of greatness.

Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.

If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats ... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.

Attitude will always define who we are in life.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.