Life Quotes - Page 525

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.

The only real problem in life is what to do next.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Every dogma has its day.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.

I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.