Life Quotes - Page 313

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Passion is the model of all my actions.

The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

To succeed in life, you must have the courage to be hated.

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."

All you need is time... and you have it... NOW

It always seems impossible until its done.

I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that, the power that is LIFE is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble, because you see that see the same divinity in everyone else.

Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.

If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.