Life Quotes - Page 634

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They become a way of life fairly quickly. You may welcome this transition. It may seem inevitable to you. You have been removed from the world. It is all right, in a way, because there is nothing so sure, so safe, as routine.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room.

We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in others, all apparently running parallel. But parallel lines never meet.

I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

One of my goals is to inspire people to be all that they can be and, hopefully, be a good example and teach some useful, interesting principles. Perhaps I can be the key that turns on the engine in their life, and then they can take their car where they want.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.

Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life.