This Life Quotes

Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

Footbal is very much an addiction for me. This is something that I really need in my life. This is something that if I don't have it, I'm not a very pleasant person to be around.

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.

Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.

You can't get fit in one workout, just as you can't live your life in one day.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.

If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?

When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties.

How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.

...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.

As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

To drink is to warm the heart; without dispelling reason, it gives reason to life.

A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life.

As you speed along the highway of life ... you might pause and consider. When everything's coming your way, maybe you're driving in the wrong lane.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.

I really felt that 'Three's Company' was a gift. When it ended, I had money in the bank and had the luxury to pursue a life that meant something, to learn and discover.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. So use the power of God's Word to do what He wants you to do...even if you have to do it afraid! The rewards are great.

Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.