This Life Quotes

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Life is the elimination of what is dead.

I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Life begins at age forty.

I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.

You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.

I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

The future has no shelf life

No matter how much you may change or how life may change, God never changes, and His promises never fail.

The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.

Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.

I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you.

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

When you say yes to life, you attract divine guidance. When you're inspired, you're collaborating with fate. Everything starts working for you.

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, "I'm sparkling," you'll have a whole different energy and experience.

I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.