Life Quotes - Page 310

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is a conversion to humanity — a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

The purpose of art is to stop time.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

Life's too short. Start with Dessert!

If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.