This Life Quotes

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

It all begins with you. If you do not take care of yourself, you will not be strong enough to take care of anything in life.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

Most people think great god will come from the skies, take away everything, and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.

Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colours.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

There will be mistakes and there will be falters. There will be things that are not a part of your plan. See the challenges in your life and accept them and embrace them.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.

Do nothing which is of no use.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.

Love yourself like your life depends on it, because it does.

The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.