Quotes about life
life importance lasting
Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living. Kent Nerburn
life art our-lives
Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.
life efficiency conscience
... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience. Kelly Miller
life self realization
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world Ramana Maharshi
life moving arrows
That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang. Ralph Ellison
life-is theatrical american-life
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
life country fate
America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many - This in not prophecy, but description.
life glasses mirrors
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.
life inspiring failure
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
life fall heart
I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to survive, backstrom really wears his heart on his sleeve and his life is unraveling... I would much rather hang out with that person than a slick procedural detective who has all the answers... it's human, it's frail, it's interesting. Rainn Wilson
life people drug
Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life. Rachel Zoe
life kaleidoscope looks
You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away. Rainbow Rowell
life real nerd
To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
life happiness success
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
life strength best-husband
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
life alienation company
We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.
life men air
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
life death long
Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
life forever study
I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.
life firsts bud
The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.
life wise festivals
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.
life happiness beautiful
The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.
life firsts causes
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
life-is conversation
The best of life is conversation.
life sleep
Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
life sky joy
Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.
life reflection light
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
life joy brave
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
life spiritual long
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
life time enough
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
life positive happiness
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
life motivational success
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
life beauty eye
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.