This Life Quotes

There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our mind is in silence, then the new arrives.

A person is what is his life; if that person doesn't modify nothing inside himself, if he doesn't transform radically his life, if he doesn't work upon himself, then he is wasting miserably his time.

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

The great source of pleasure is variety.

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

Oh! she was good as she was fair. None-none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are, To know her was to love her.

But the day is spent; And stars are kindling in the firmament, To us how silent--though like ours, perchance, Busy and full of life and circumstance.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about.

If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what life is about.

I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.

I had no concept of this [healthy food] until very, very late in life, thanks to a trainer/nutritionist that I met who has been working with me since I was forty-five.

For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.

As I live in awareness of, growth in, and gratitude for mercy, my life will bring glory to Him

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.