What Is Life Quotes
Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.
Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.
I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note.
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.
You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.
Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.
Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.
Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.
The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.
This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.