Life Quotes - Page 429

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its retinue of worlds is only one system among many, then many other systems will be like ours: home to life. Indeed, to the extent that this is true, we should be prepared for the possibility that, even in the Milky Way galaxy, billions of planets may be carpeted by the dirty, nasty business known as life.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

What we eat is a matter of life and death.

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

I believe in myself, and I've always had people behind me who believed in me. With that, you can do anything.

A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

You've got this amazing creature- yourself- that can breathe, dance, and cry. And you have a certain amount of moments (maybe a few million moments-but moments they are) and you have this chance to do absolutely anything- to reach out to another vulnerable & true. To dance on the roof of euphoria and pray beside the ocean to let go. We have the chance every moment to Be Alive and give to this world who needs each one of us so badly.

How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience, as well as of his studiousness and zeal. He knew mathematics and perspective, and there was nothing which he was unable to know; and at the same time he was sufficiently acquainted with languages to be able to understand the saints and the philosophers and the wise men of antiquity but his knowledge of languages was not such as to enable him to effect translations until the latter portion of his life.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.

I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Some people live life and others talk about it.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.