Life Quotes - Page 452

Let others lead small lives, but not you

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.

A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.

They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

If I were just your average 23-year-old girl, and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action. But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma'am, there's nothing we can do. It makes no sense.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

Amway gets people into a new life of excitement, promise, profit, and hope.

The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

People only do their best at things they truly enjoy

All of life is a foreign country.

Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.