This Life Quotes
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.
I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.
People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.
If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.
In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.
Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.
In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.
Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.
But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.
It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.
To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.
I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.
Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.
The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.
Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?
Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.
I don't know what should have happened in my life, but I do know that I'm dancing as fast as I can.
As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.
Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.
I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.
We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.
Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.
Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?
To me the purpose of life is to enjoy it! It's to enjoy the gift, and to make sure that other people have an opportunity to enjoy the gift.
Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.
Within any drama in anyone's life, there's always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on.
Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going to be a writer.
The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.