Life Quotes

It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in thi...

The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is,...

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lov...

Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has writ...

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, “Respect me; I’m a respectable grown-up!" a...

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of id...

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Lonelin...

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it...

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely on...

Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.

You don't wake up one morning and say, 'Today is going to be a comedy day.' And the next day, 'Today...

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but has...

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each oth...

You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...

How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or Amer...

Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love...

The existence of strict moral principles has invariablysignified that the biological, and specifical...

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void i...

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she t...

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants t...

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitti...

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session ...

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people th...

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the th...

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of...

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of th...

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is ...

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

There was a basic harmony between Antonia and her mistress [Mrs. Harling]. They had strong, independ...

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered-- about her teeth, for instance. I know so ...

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if the...

Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fi...

Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complex...

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the l...

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his c...

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Ene...

The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.

How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so...

Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, ...

I reckon if there’s ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with H...

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay ...

What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least sc...

And George Farr had the town, the earth, the world to himself and his sorrow. Music came faint as a ...

Listen: it’s got to be all honeymoon, always. Either heaven, or hell: no comfortable safe peaceful p...

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of ano...

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is ...

Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like...

It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and t...

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation...

Ralph chose the firm strip as a path because he needed to think, and only here could he allow his fe...

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the s...

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we w...

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impuden...

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff...

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transfor...

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his att...

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be syste...

‎"If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we aw...

I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain ...

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad...

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, th...

OctoberO love, turn from the changing sea and gaze,Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old,A...

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, pr...

Why are we here? We're here to go!

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such ...

I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.

The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to m...

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure yo...

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to...

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.