Life Quotes
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The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
Stephen Covey
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Being able to know and feel what Karl knows and feels… that no matter what, I am God’s, and God is mine… that we have a connection; we have a relationship. Faith in your life brings God in your life.
Brian D. McLaren
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Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.
Leon Uris
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Thinking about death... clarifies your life!
Candy Chang
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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Haruki Murakami
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Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.
Joe Nichols
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The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.
Noah Levine
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Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.
Mike Leigh
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We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.
Thomas Hood
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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
Seneca the Younger
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I think in order to have eternal life, you have to have a soul, and the soul of the show is that we all really did love each other. I think that really came across.
Susan Olsen
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But his life consisted, for the most part, of writing and reading. He wrote during the day, read at night, went to bed early, and did the same thing the next day.
Brian Morton
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In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
Thomas Aquinas
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Still, life had a way of adding day to day
Virginia Woolf
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Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
Craig Brown
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The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.
Steve Jobs
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Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
William Butler Yeats
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Here was life, gently reminding her that she could care again. That her grief was allowed, but so was her joy.
Courtney Milan
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And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
Walt Whitman
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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
Plato
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Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.
Haruki Murakami
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It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.
Alice Hegan Rice
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Thomas A. Edison