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.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

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.

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

The demon that you can swallow gives you it Joseph Campbell

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.

During 2002 we entered the foreign currency market for the first time in my life. In 2003 we enlarged our position as I became increasingly bearish on the dollar.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one and the weakest weapon of the other.

If you consider my situation: a guy who comes back from arguably you know a death sentence why would I then enter into a sport and dope myself up and risk my life again? That's crazy. I would never do that. No. No way.

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.

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.

Becoming emancipated at 14 my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company Flower Films and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30 I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography and I want to take an art history class.

There is only one failure in life possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Agriculture is for living, mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man, studies are for shaping attitudes feelings desires emotions and impulses of man so that they may confer more peace more joy and more fortitude on man.

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

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life a good society.

I think that as life is action and passion it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply acts boldly and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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

In other words don't expect to always be great. Disappointments failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem let's go and get it'.

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

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

He who is engrossed in family life will never acquire knowledge, there can be no mercy in the eater of flesh, the greedy man will not be truthful, and purity will not be found in a woman a hunter.

Of course parents are the most important people in a child's life.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

When a nominee for the Supreme Court one of only nine lifetime appointments makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy like the joys afforded by art or life.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Do not contemplate on death, it is just an incident in life, contemplate on God who is the master of all life.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

I was in constant demand in my professional life and my personal life.

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.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance a revolutionary crisis or a battle.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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

Life loves the liver of it.

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake or an eternal fever. Besides who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

You find no man at all intellectual who is willing to leave London. No Sir when a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

For everything that lives is holy life delights in life

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Life starts with Love. The sweetness of love coming out of life is the great and unique principle that is at the source of everything. You can put this love in any field of work.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real and vice versa.

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

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.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life and who content with his life can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

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!

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone. A man sir should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

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

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like Okay now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again, I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company when I started producing.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

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.

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 is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

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

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

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.

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.

Life's like a play: it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.

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

All theory dear friend is gray but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life to me and should be.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Even in the common affairs of life in love friendship and marriage how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

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

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life and often find ourselves without experience despite our years.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses and that Spiritual Principles can be apprehended by this method.

It is not length of life but depth of life.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain, but ever while you live expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

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

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.

My life has no purpose no direction no aim no meaning and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

It seems in fact as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

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.

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.

The smallest flower is a thought a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Caresses expressions of one sort or another are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms and they call you crazy

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man

Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

Whatever the scientists may say if we take the supernatural out of life we leave only the unnatural.

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

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

It is a gaping wound whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of daily life.

There's place and means for every man alive.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you later not a lesser but a greater thing.

Suicide moreover was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Shame on the soul to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle not a bed of roses.

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.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

I always felt guilty. My whole life.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn Joseph Campbell

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

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.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

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.

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ which we believe sets us right with God the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

The more a man can forget the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love the first fluttering of its silken wings.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place as it does for the rest of us.

Every man has the right to life to bodily integrity.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I am an over-achiever and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Whatever I have tried to do in life I have tried with all my heart to do it well, whatever I have devoted myself to I have devoted myself completely, in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand but in playing a poor hand well.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun and although I still have my dark days I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life sure I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun you know? And who wants to be that person?

When I did 'E.T. ' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'

Art is the proper task of life.

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

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful positive life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

Nine times out of ten in the arts as in life there is actually no truth to be discovered, there is only error to be exposed.

Life is very tough. If you don't laugh it's tough.

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

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within, there lies the power to persuade there the life - there if one must speak out the real man.

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

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon silvering over the evening of life.

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Life is a jest, and all things show it. I thought so once, but now I know it.

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

Life is not fair, get used to it.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

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

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one have we?

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your place.

Life is a quarry out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Throughout my whole life as a performer I've never played with a band. I've always played alone so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything, it is he that gets the most out of life.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

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.

One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever one of the guys on the very top table of all was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen of course Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own 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.

Make the mind the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

I Ingrid Bergman

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship and I thought that was the most important thing.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Life is Loving - Listening - Lifting - Learning - Living

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

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.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect from event to event is often carried on by secret steps which our foresight cannot divine and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good, and good may bring forth evil both equally unexpected.

At such moments you realize that you and the other are in fact one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor when to God who is the searcher of our hearts all our privacies are open?

If he have faith the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

They [Young People] have exalted notions because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations, moreover their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things / and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning / all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything / they love too much hate too much and the same with everything else.

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

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that try as we may we can never be certain of making people happy whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

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

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase others diminish and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

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.

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

This is not a bad life.

I know that balance that I need to have in my life.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it like a sculpture.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that when you think about it it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

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?

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car.

Life is an ordeal albeit an exciting one but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

And life is given to none freehold but it is leasehold for all.

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.

To the wise life is a problem, to the fool a solution

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime, therefore we must be saved by hope.

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.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

Each man is questioned by life, and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life, to life he can only respond by being responsible.

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.

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.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

Love is the river of life in the world.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends, that's the good stuff in life.

Bondage is the life of personality and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

My work is about my life and what I want to do with it.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

I didn't fully realize it at the time but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce in the next generation more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

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.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through and you make of it a dance a dirge or a life march as you will.

In black neighborhoods everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board for totally different reasons.

'Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic universal wonderful, Drawn from the stars and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Why don't they knead two virtuous souls for life / Into that moral centaur man and wife?

There is indeed nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either.

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.

There is no force like success and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it, as of the individual so should it be of the nation.

The goal of all life is death.

Early in life I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety

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.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity and you can examine whole worlds.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game an hour may be a year a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

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.

It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

At every crisis in one's life it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

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

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart 'Tis woman's whole existence

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 media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life?

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

Life is too short and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Love towards all beings. The founders always had in view the Unity of all life and the progressive march of man towards Divinity.

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

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.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time, he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

The habits of life form the soul and the soul forms the countenance.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Talent develops in quiet places character in the full current of human life.

LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn, the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting, cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

It is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Nowadays manners are easy and life is hard.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

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.

Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of the heart.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

We are at our very best and we are happiest when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful so worthwhile.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance self-denial hard work sacrifice dedication and respect for authority.

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

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life there in riches or poverty in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

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.

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.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

I do not believe in an afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear

As far as service goes it can take the form of a million things. To do service you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

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.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

When we have lost everything including hope life becomes a disgrace and death a duty.

If you observe, people always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

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.

There is no man however wise who has not at some period of his youth said things or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly if he could expunge it from his memory.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

The woman who fasts and observes religious vows without the permission of her husband shortens his life and goes to hell.

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

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.