Life Quotes - Page 534

Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.

The universe is going to help the Warrior.

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerly believe and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.