Life Quotes - Page 303

For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself

The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple, Some show it through their toil. Some breathe it into music, Some mold it into art, Some shape it into bread loaves... Some hold it in their hearts.

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

Much of your success in life is determined by how you choose to act in spite of how you feel.

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

What is life for? Life is for you.