Life Quotes

With renunciation life begins.

Novels are longer than life.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.

You can't model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.

I'm on this road for the rest of my life.

Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.