What Is Life Quotes

I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.

So long as there's a gap in your life, fill it with love.

The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

Everyone has a worst time in their life. There's always a worse time. We are all either in a crisis, coming to one or coming out of one.

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.

Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved'.

You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.

The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Live the rest of your life in possibility

When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him?

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

The Holy Land is everywhere.

Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.

I have to live my life. I have a family and I just think it's absurd to let other people influence the way you live.