This Life Quotes
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.
I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.
Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.
All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.
We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.
Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.
I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.
I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.
Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.
We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.
every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.
I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?
You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.
Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.
When love and compassion fills your heart, you find newness in every moment, and life becomes a celebration.
We’ve been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we’ll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.
The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.
It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.
When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
