Life Quotes - Page 603

Anything in life is possible, if you make it happen.

Your waistline is your lifeline

For life is holy and every moment is precious.

In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries.

Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not been written.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.