Quotes about life
life christian theatre
It is true that we have not deliberately or wholly abandoned the Christian element in our tradition, but does that element count with us as it once did? Is the moral tone of the nation - its politics, its business life, its literature, its theatre, its movies, its radio networks, its television stations - Christian? Robert McCracken
life cities suffering
It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.
life independent substance
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given substance is an invariable quantity-i.e., one independent of the circumstances accompanying the combustion-from which it is more specifically concluded that the chemical effect of the combustible materials undergoes no quantitative change even as a result of the vital process, or that the living organism, with all its mysteries and marvels, is not capable of generating heat out of nothing. Robert Mayer
life-is moments enjoy
Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing. Robert M. Parker, Jr.
life law degrees
One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution. Robert M. Pirsig
life goes-on habit
I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.
life wisdom future
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
life men tasks
To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude. Robert Louis Stevenson
life success ambition
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
life happiness joy
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
life stars flower
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
life powerful funeral
Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.
life men tasks
To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
life lying pride
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?
life spring heart
And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.
life time work
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
life order wind
Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.
life children men
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.
life business marketing
Everyone lives by selling something.
life retrospect action
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
life sports hope
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
life winter hands
I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.
life thankful gratitude
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
life divorce acceptance
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
life reality banquets
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
life frustration stories
That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable. Robert E. Sherwood
life dream ghost
Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions. Robert E. Howard
life writing serious
Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent. Walt Kelly
life-is chairs seats
Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat. Wally Lamb
life parenting light
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Walt Disney
life ideas
Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.
life zest bad-times
In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.
life jobs fun
Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.