Category/Topic Name: Life

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

I bear a charmed life.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

My life is my message.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

The lie is a condition of life.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Where there is love there is life.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Live the life you've dreamed.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Dreams are necessary to life.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Art is the proper task of life.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The less routine the more life.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Life is not fair get used to it.

I love life because what more is there?

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Life is but thought.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Everything in life is luck.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

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.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Life well spent is long.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

You change your life by changing your heart.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

What we play is life.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Life is wasted on the living.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

Life itself is the proper binge.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Life loves the liver of it.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Life must be lived as play.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

May you live all the days of your life.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Life is hard it's harder if you're stupid.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

There is no wealth but life.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Children make your life important.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.

In married life three is company and two none.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

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.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

While there's life, there's hope.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Life is too short to work so hard.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.