Life Quotes
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I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
Nellie Bly
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I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.
Dalai Lama
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
William Howard Taft
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There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.
Lois Lowry
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Each morning when you wake, and everyday for the rest of your life... Expect the best of yourself, and accept the rest from yourself.
Hal Elrod
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I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.
Alan Furst
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I love my work, but my home life is so fulfilling that I don't tend to be driven by work ambitions.
Jane Goldman
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Plato
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We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.
Caitlin Moran
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One thing you have to realize is that cancer is not something you necessarily cure, but you want to just take care of yourself and extend your life as long as you can.
Joe Torre
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If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?
N.D. Wilson
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You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.
Molly Ivins
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A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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My life is very exciting now.
Jeanne Moreau
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We want you to find that thing that will make your life better.
Payal Kadakia
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
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I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation.
Jonathan Dimbleby
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I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.
Mariano Rivera
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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.
Joanna Coles
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My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so.
Cory Booker
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I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.
Daniel Johns Silverchair
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The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.
Edwin Muir
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Rules for today: 1) Pray 2) Laugh 3) Repeat. The only reason to take this life too seriously is if it's your only one.
Mark Hart Crowded House