This Life Quotes
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.
When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.
The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result.
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.
If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.
Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.
I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.
I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.
When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful
Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.
There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?
The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.
At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.
Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.
I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.
I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.
It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.
