Life Quotes - Page 463

Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Being healthy and living a healthy lifestyle have always been very important to me.

Life is love and love is life.

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.

To love another person is to help them love God.

The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.

The tongue has the power of life and death.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

You work and live to meet your daily needs rather than to maximize your potential. You simply exist from day to day, without much passion or enthusiasm for life. Meanwhile, your talents remain untapped, buried somewhere deep inside. This is an awful way to live.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

The best way to uplift our own lives is to do all we can to uplift the lives of others.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

It's always better to be real.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

No-one wants to feel like they're constantly auditioning for a place in your life.

It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life I'd be Loretta Lynn.