Life Quotes - Page 358

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

We live and die; Christ died and lived!

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.

However old you are, however much you love life, however happy you are, how healthy you are, it doesn’t matter. Nothing’s guaranteed. And I think it made me want to take that risk to expose myself as me and not as a version of myself. I don’t become Jessie J. I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I’m still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.

Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.

When life is hard, remember - we are not the first to ask, 'Is there no other way?

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

If you're walking the path of the dreamer, everything is possible.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have proved by actual experiment that, in exact proportion to the force with which this machine works, heat is abstracted from the electrical battery. You see, therefore, that living force may be converted into heat, and that heat may be converted into living force, or its equivalent attraction through space.

You don't see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we're free, wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected.

Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.