Life Quotes - Page 515

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Every now and then, bite off more than you can chew.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

Life is like a B-picture script.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

I struggle for what I believe in. Life is short, it's impossible to repeat something; you have to take advantage of things when you can reach them.

We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young" But now we see that life is sad And so is love.

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.

If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.

Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.

If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car

Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

Life is a second-by-second miracle.