Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Russell Ballard

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

M. Scott Peck

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.

M. Scott Peck

Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred, and that we should make of each moment a sacrament. Were we to do this we would think of the entire world as diffused with holiness. Wherever we might be would be a holy place for us, and we would see the holy, even sainthood, in everyone we encounter.

M. Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths-it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

M. Scott Peck

The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.

M. Scott Peck

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

M. Scott Peck

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

M. Scott Peck

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

M. Scott Peck

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Lupe Fiasco

Every life is good. This [luxury] doesn't make life. It's a lifestyle. It's a style of life. Style is what you are, but everybody has life. And everybody's life should be good. Some of the happiest people in the world have nothing. Nothing. And they find happiness in being in the world. They wear the world with a smile.

John Cena

There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

John Boyne

The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.

John Boehner

In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.

You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.

Darin Erstad

You could see right then that he had it back. There was still a lot of life in him.

Cilla Black

You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

Craig Venter

You can't have life without the genetic code.

You can win a national championship, but you'll remember for the rest of your life that you didn't get one of these.

Andrea Riseborough

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

Cyril Connolly

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Charles de Lint

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

Richard Greenberg

You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.

Robin Williams

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it's life that's pushing.

Paul Watson

You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.

Pepe Serna

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

P. L. Travers

Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

Prince Andrew

People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'

Pat Burns

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

Paul LePage

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive - sorry, I had to say it.

Pattie Boyd

I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective.