This Life Quotes

The real goal of Christianity is not to create a religion about God, but that we would actually know Him, experiencing firsthand the wonders and power of His incomparable life.

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

When you have harmony in the different areas of your life, with your mind, body, and spirit, you're just so much stronger, especially in really intense stressful situations.

Love of my life, I love you so. Love of my life, don't ever go.

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration to all.

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.

Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives.

When you are following dharma, you will be happy, at peace, still inside. There will be a sense of purpose to your life. Difficulties will not seem unconquerable.

Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you're always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low.

Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.

Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana and the samana; sometimes it's called shakti. Nice names, it is energy.

Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much more complex.

If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

One life is an absurdly small allowance.

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.

Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.

Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.

I just spent my whole life training and focused on one thing, I really don't even think about after the fact! It's like, oh yeah, I have to do something after!

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

In my race, theres 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and its what you do, you know.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

Even before I knew Yoga in this life, I was into that kind of thing.

I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that’s just what I’ve gone and done.