This Life Quotes

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

Life is short and art is long.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

They criticize because they don't have a life. It's easy to criticize another person.

I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.

The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..ıs the struggle of lıfe.

Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life.

I wanted to do a summary of my life and career. There’s been so many different looks, and so many types of songs that have become iconic, so it was just kind of fun to look back on everything

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

Life is too short to surround yourself with people who aren't looking out for you.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

I'm a conscious parent when I believe... a parent's presence in their child's life is of paramount value and provides the foundation for their sense of worth.

I believe that the true value of life lies in work, diligence and innovation. After all, work is the essence of humanity.

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

(Talon pulled another beignet from the sack and held it up for her to eat.) That stuff is hazardous to your health. (Sunshine) Baby, life is hazardous to your health. (Talon)

Your Dark-Huntress, Danger, called for Acheron and since he’s busy, I was sent to check things out and report back to him on what’s happening. So here I am. Joy, oh joy of my life. (Alexion)

I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy.

My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.

Life's so full that you just take it one day at a time.

The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is.

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.