Life Quotes - Page 612

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction.

Without literature, life is hell.

I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.

Walking through this life really is walking through fire.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on. "I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life--whatever its length--happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want it more than I have ever wanted anything else in my life.

Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.

Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

You just got ta believe, i have never been a quitter in my life or in my career.

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.