I think that I've had a very strange life.

We kind of deny the stages of life.

My life has been very full.

When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

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

When I was younger I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

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

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why when I am in special need of help the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

Pythagoras Locke Socrates -- but pages might be filled up as vainly as before with the sad usage of all sorts of sages who in his life-time each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

In life all good things come hard but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

That's what the Romney plan is all about how to get jobs created how to get this debt and deficit under control how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

Life is not accumulation it is about contribution.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Old age: the crown of life our play's last act.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that Isaac Asimov

My family members are here with me because they're afraid to stay at home. There is no excuse for it. This is just uncalled for. It goes beyond courtesy. It's protection of 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 nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood until the time comes for them to depart this life again like children neither tired of living nor aware of death.

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.

Life is Love enjoy it,

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

On life's journey faith is nourishment virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do all his life, and that is to find his way to his God his Morning Star salute his fellow man and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

You have to learn to understand your partner to be tolerant sympathetic encouraging. Those are skills that are not bad to have in life.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.

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

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

It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.

If your daily life seems poor do not blame it, blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches, for the Creator there is no poverty.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Love has always been the most important business in my life I should say the only one.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link and life is after all a chain.

In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can, and when once you take hope and fear away you take from it its very life and being.

One never tires of what is well written style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life and every setting sun be to you as its close.

While there's life there's hope.

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

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

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

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Like a French poem is life, being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came he saw and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have but fortunately I woke up.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life even in one's own character to himself.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams from the unconscious and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Life is neither good or evil but only a place for good and evil.

The man who radiates good cheer who makes life happier wherever he meets it is always a man of vision and faith.

The lie is a condition of life.

I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again all in one lifetime.

Live your life and forget your age.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball they can't fire you.

Love is your life your friend your relative your food and your everything. Heart that is filled with love can never be polluted. Love is nectarine. Once you fill it in your heart the poison of evil will have no place in it.

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.

Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds, and purification of mind from mental impurities.

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs & flaming hair, But Desire Gratified Plants fruits of life & beauty there.

I have been black and blue in some spot somewhere almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

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.

I have had and may have still a thousand friends as they are called in life who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world /not much remembered when the ball is over.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat which is the combat of life and greater than every other earthly conflict.

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit either in science or in practical life.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself to multiply the ways in which he exists to make his life full significant and interesting.

Excellence encourages one about life generally, it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

An unused life is an early death.

Every person all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

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

Personally I would be delighted if there were a life after death especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

After all life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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

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

Brigands demand your money or your life, women require both.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

If you had your life to live over again do it overseas.

Consider any individual at any period of his life and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

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.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life the driven ones the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.

Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

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

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.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy high unemployment falling wages rising gas prices the national debt the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness sharing democratic cooperation and altruism in public life.

In real life unlike in Shakespeare the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are in very important respects what they seem to be.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

It has ever been since time began and ever will be till time lose breath that love is a mood - no more - to man and love to a woman is life or death.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

The good life is one that's artistically made.

The truth is that life is delicious horrible charming frightful sweet bitter and that is everything.

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.

But this thing stinks. It's not good for me. And the unfortunate thing is that you potentially dealt with something that you have to face for the rest of your life. And like I said the protocol wasn't followed and there is no backup sample to confirm what they say is a positive test.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man / Less than a span.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

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.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives who are not stored away in any golden ghettos you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

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?

Oh I've never been asked a silly question in my entire life.

Only actions give life strength, only moderation gives it charm.

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.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Life is hard. After all it kills you.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

Life is painting a picture not doing a sum.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Never try to impress a woman because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed he can 'earn' more in that single day while cleaning out his desk than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today in the executive suite the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business the rest doesn't matter happiness or unhappiness.

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

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

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

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

You really really really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people really smart people about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

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

During my life I have often had to eat my own words and on the whole I have found them a wholesome diet

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.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

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.

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

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends living like starving artists and wonder 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery we shall learn nothing.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality, we are miserable enough in this life without speculating on another

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

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

I feel that life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

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.

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

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right always.

It is by not always thinking of yourself if you can manage it that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself you will always be searching and lost

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.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

President Obama instituted the most anti-growth anti-investment anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious I call it reckless.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams but in active charity and in willing service.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

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

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life through devotion to something beyond himself.

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

No one is happy all his life long.

I think that if you live long enough you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

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.

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

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain which is the positive element of life.

You know I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

I live in sin to kill myself I live, no longer my life my own but sin's, my good is given to me by heaven my evil by myself by my free will of which I am deprived.

Life must be lived as play.

People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups and downs of life with fortitude. One should not recoil before reverses of fortunes. One should bravely face them and overcome them.

I loved to make people laugh in high school and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard had the right values took some risks that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

The life of inner peace being harmonious and without stress is the easiest type of existence.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that you're in control of your life. If you don't life controls you.

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast going to work coming home petting the dog watching TV kissing the kids and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

What allows us as human beings to psychologically survive life on earth with all of its pain drama and challenges is a sense of purpose and meaning

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

I've been an important star and lived a full life yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world they would take away the spring and youth the former from the year the latter from human life.

But Life will suit Itself to Sorrow's most detested fruit Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore All ashes to the taste

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both, this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married, I don't have kids, I can focus on my career.

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

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

In everyone's life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Life as it is called is for most of us one long postponement.

There is no wealth but life.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Nobody as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life is without trouble.

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

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Before I was shot I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since I knew that I was watching television.

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.

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.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

The experience of this one life must be enough to show you that there is no joy unmixed with grief that both grief and joy are short-lived and they both depend on the mind and its control. You do not require the experience of a series of lives to grasp this patent fact.

I've blundered my way through life.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

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.

Read no history: nothing but biography for that is life without theory.

I had in mind a message although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly persuading Americans and especially Southerners of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

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

Through our great good fortune in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

The universe is change, life is what thinking makes of it.

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

A string of excited fugitive miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness, happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment when the picture of one's life or of human life as it truly has been or is satisfies the will and is gladly accepted.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

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

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

When we think of the major threats to our national security the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores one from nature not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted but verily also one should afflict the comfortable and especially when they are comfortably contentedly even happily wrong.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires the birth and death of kings or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

Death is frightening and so is Eternal Life.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers, that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Life's a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

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

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.

With the changing economy no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

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.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

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

We as parents have to lead by example. Showing our kids what it's like to have healthy lifestyles and what it's like to eat right and exercise is so important.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child, it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life nobody knows anything.

A man is ethical only when life as such is sacred to him that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

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.

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!'

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.

You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return it shall not be like other travelers without being able to give one accurate idea of any thing. We will know where we have gone.

For me writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Living is not enough, it has no value by itself. It is the motives the feelings the thoughts the attitudes that prompt the day to day life that matters.

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

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

I wish life was not so short he thought. languages take such a time and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

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

When men come to like a sea-life they are not fit to live on land.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land their culture their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things, to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now anytime you say the word anytime you let her rip.

Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery for therein lies the secret of immortality.

And thou wilt give thyself relief if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

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.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Live so you do not have to look back and say: 'God how I have wasted my life.'

We sleep but the loom of life never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

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

I set forth a humble and inglorious life, that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died then only can you call it good or bad.

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

The only thing I understand deeply because in my teens I was thinking about it and every year of my life is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

The act of dying is one of the acts of 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.

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.

Woe to the makers of literal translations who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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.

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

To write it it took three months, to conceive it three minutes, to collect the data in it all my life.