Quotes about life
life-and-love past play
The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play. Johnny Cash
life beautiful son
Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every minute of it. My family has done so well with it. It's been a beautiful thing for me. I've saved lives with it and saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son, it helped me every step of the way for two years solid, and here I am. John Travolta
life promise needs
Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough. And you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.
life mistake book
People really need to take time and read a book, you know, that's my advice. You could read 'A New Slant on Life,' you could read 'Dianetics.' And I think if you really read it, you'll understand it, but unless you do, you'll speculate. And I think that's a mistake to do that.
life firsts grownups
Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup. John Updike
life games matter
Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
life fall roller-coaster
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
life water razors
Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
life years self
As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.
life behinds dies
Our lives fade behind us before we die.
life smell failure-in-life
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
life people ems
The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.
life yummy long
Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.
life-is-too-short reading writing
I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
life yesterday too-much
Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.
life rain sky
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
life faces fame
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
life experience literature
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
life moving lovers
Why so pale and wan, fond lover, Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? John Suckling
life success nature
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. John Stuart Mill
life party order
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
life evil accountability
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
life earth good-things
While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here. John Selden
life-is-good evil life-is
Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good. John Shelby Spong
life wings long
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. James Joseph Sylvester
life ties soul
Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of acquaintance confined to occasional calls upon one another; but that is now at an end; they are drawn together and are constantly becoming more and more intimately related and connected by a thousand fresh ties, and we may confidently look forward to a time when they shall form but one body with one soul.
life reality race
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. James Joyce
life teacher life-is
Life is the great teacher.
life distance past
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.
life art believe
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.
life fall snow
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
life spiritual mistake
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
life-is
A day is only a day. But a life is only a life. James Richardson