This Life Quotes
How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.
I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.
Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.
Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters?
Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
Our ultimate aim in life is not to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous, or problem free. Our ultimate aim in life is to bring glory to God.
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.
Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.