Life Quotes
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In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.
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I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that you know you would not have brought out of yourself. He makes you discover something interesting in your life. If you are living like an animal, what is the point of living? What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.
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Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
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It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.
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In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.
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Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?
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You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!
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All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.
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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.
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Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.
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Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.
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Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?
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Other than that, I've taken grief my whole life over the way I played and this and that. I let the criticism roll of my back and use it to get better.
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Life’s not a one-shot special. It’s a friggin’ on-going series. Live it!
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Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone.
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..human faces are for me only suggestions to see something else in them – the life of colour, seized with a lover's passion.
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Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.
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Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.
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If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.
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Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.
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One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.
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Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
