Quotes about life
life plant grows
Life is a plant that grows out of death. Henry Ward Beecher
life dwelling hands
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
life good-morning time
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
life fear atheism
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
life war age
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
life men trying
Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.
life resurrection christ
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
life men giving
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.
life men funeral
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
life men symphony
The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.
life men amusing
Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
life half way
...I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live... Henry James
life tea-drinking afternoon
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
life judging inspire
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
life winning names
He lives who dies to win a lasting name. Henry Drummond
life-and-death language said
It is said that life and death are under the power of language. Helene Cixous
life dream art
I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art. Helena Bonham Carter
life garden light
If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow. Helen Dunmore
life-is-too-short passionate roles
I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with. Helen Clark
life glasses broken
Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.
life fall alaska
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. Helen Fielding
life rare-occasion hard
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard. Johann Sebastian Bach
life giving long
My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a reason to stay alive. Johannes Heesters
life-and-love pieces half
One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen. Johannes Brahms
life book daily-life
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
life harsh teach
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
life moving taken
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.
life age toil
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
life creativity open-minded
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
life science together
Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.
life literature superstitions
Superstition is the poetry of life.
life success song
Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.
life art giving-up
The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.