Life Quotes - Page 550

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure.

My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.

SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

To me, success is one's ability to keep the faith, develop his God-given talents, and be able to honestly say at the close of life, "the world is a better place because I have lived."

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

History is full of surprises.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Music is really driving my whole life.

If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.

In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.