This Life Quotes
trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.
I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.
If you have to go back through your day in your head, try to go back to only the good things. Look at those, and what you did well. Otherwise, life kind of passes you by.
...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.
After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
Of all the journeys to undertake, the one of self-compassion is one of utmost importance for long-term well-being.
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.
My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.
So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.
I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.
I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself
There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.
There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.
In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is never worry, anxiety nor a fear of failure in our life.
If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.
You dont have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.
You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.