Life Quotes - Page 420

I have trouble getting approvals from my heath insurance company for basic antidepressants. And I have the best plan my agency has. I can't get high off this stuff! I'm not going to sell it! Getting my medication is critical. It's me saying, "I just want to live." And their response seems to be, "We agree that it's a matter of life and death; that's why we're declining it." Every time I get a cold, I have Tylenol with codeine coming out the wazoo. But the medication I need to live? Nah.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

I love life and if there's something that I'm playing that I love, I'll research it.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me -and I love to live life at full throttle.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to works. Faith in Christ comprises belief in Him, combined with trust in Him. One cannot have faith without belief; yet he may believe and still lack faith. Faith is vivified, vitalized, living belief.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.

Appreciate the moment.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.

Play the man, Mastre Ridley; we shall this day light such a cndle, by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

What a glorious thing is life, surrounded by the beauties of the world in which we live.