Life Quotes - Page 543

Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.

Oregano is the spice of life.

You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.

You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance.

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination. The first quivering word he puts to paper is the word of the wounded angel: pain.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel-track. Which Dakin's and Maynard's wagons had Passed over many a time. An inch more to the right or left had sealed its fate, Or an inch higher. Yet it lived and flourished, As much as if it had a thousand acres Of untrodden space around it, and never Knew the danger it incurred. It did not borrow trouble, nor invite an Evil fate by apprehending it.

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.

Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Life is a stream of happy and unhappy experiences, because that leads to Soul's purification. How do you get by in the dark times? Try to give love to someone, especially then.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.