This Life Quotes

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?'

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky I know your fed up but you must try to survive Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.

Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

I refuse to live my life in fear.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

When you have made it in life, you must give back to those who made you.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.