Life Quotes - Page 427

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

I would say to bishops, and to all men in authority, we should have an interest in carrying on this work. We should labor to get the Spirit of God. It is our right, our privilege, and our duty to call upon the Lord, that the vision of our mind may be opened, so that we may see and understand the day and age in which we are living. It is your privilege, and mine too, to know the mind and will of the Lord concerning our duties, and if we fail to seek after this, we neglect to magnify our calling.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

My normal life is like being on holiday.

It's just seems life without music would be death.

The way you live your life depends on you.

Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.

Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.