About Life Quotes
But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.
Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.
Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.
When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.
Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.
When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.
We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.
Living means constantly growing closer to death. Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet.
We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.
I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.
I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.
Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.
