This Life Quotes

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

My God, what have we done?

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.

Face your worry and see it as an illusion. It cannot exist unless you give it power and give it life.

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds All the world's loves in its unworldliness.

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

Come walk the path that leads to eternal happiness, joy, and everlasting life in the kingdom of our Heavenly Father.

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.

I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.

The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.