Life Quotes - Page 490

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help but dance if we could see things as they really are. Then we should kiss both hands to Fate and fling our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls into life with a glorious abandonment, an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than brush the hem of the real beauty and joy and wonder that are always there.

One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential.

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss

Cycling is not a sport it's a lifestyle.

I want to keep growing and living life to the fullest for as long as I'm on this planet.

Life can only be understood backwards.

It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.

It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.