This Life Quotes

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of Moses are inspired. Call it divine. I don't know. But I would certainly call it inspired.

Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.

I've been through hell. It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me.

Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.

What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

Love that endures, from life that disappears!

Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident.

Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.

even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

Gather every promise. This is Jesus, the life of every grace, the life of every promise, the life of every ordinance, the life of every blessing.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.

Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.

For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

There's always little things that you can find to incorporate, I think, from your life, whether it be the exact circumstance or something similar that maybe brought up a similar emotion in you.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.

People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?' I'm this age. I am in this moment and in this life.

When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win.

You don't get out of life what you want. You get out of life who you are.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.