This Life Quotes

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job.

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

Find something in your life worth fighting for

Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason.

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is. This has been normal for me.

Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

Dance is a life, everyday. don't miss it. You're in bodies, you can move... Where is your joy?

This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.

I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.

Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action.

My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.

Do you cherish your humble and silky life?

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

This has been a wonderful life, absolutely terrific. There are very few things that I would go back and do differently, if I had that control.

When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

If I hadn’t done Bond, I wouldn’t have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.

All human beings, without exception, are continually creating themselves with the life-energy that is flowing within them

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

Life's too short to stay where we are.

Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.

The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.

Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face.

If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know...I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive!

Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life.

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.