This Life Quotes

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?

Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.

One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning." Memoir From Antproof Case

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

If you are going to worship a guy who was crucified, don't expect life to be pop and Skittles.

In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are.

I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.

Life is a cycle of ends and starts.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.

A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. [Lat., Nolo virum facili redimit qui sanquine famam; Hunc volo laudari qui sine morte potest.]

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.

Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

You can't be happy, taking away something I've worked on all my life to do and help my teammates and help my defense, ... It's just part of me, playing the puck. So, definitely, you can't be happy.

The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.

Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.