This Life Quotes

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!

To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much less care; but try to obtain what you need, and make the best of every moment of your life.

My life is together, both professionally and socially.

Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living.

Time is old. Life is short. Only this moment is guaranteed to you. Fight hard to do the things you dream of. You may not have another chance.

Running with the bulls was one of my crazier judgments in life and one of those things I decided to do spur of the moment. It was pretty hilarious.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

If you haven't had your life what have you had?

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.