This Life Quotes

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.

You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

Music isn't about music, it's about life.

I try to practice with my life.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

Life is short and the art long.

People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.

Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear, by which I mean pajamas.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.

The real Christmas comes to him who has taken Christ into his life as a moving, dynamic, vitalizing force. The real spirit of Christmas lies in the life and mission of the Master.

I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.

Meditation has changed my life

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?

Not like [Adele Dazeems] going to follow me around for the rest of my life.

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.

I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.