The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved
Victor HugoLife, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
John BerrymanDeath is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas MertonThe paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonHello, good evening and welcome to the middle of the film. [The Meaning of Life]
Terry GilliamI gave my life for freedom - This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so.
(Five Souls, 1971)
William Norman EwerLife grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HoraceThose who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive.
William HazlittA judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last.
Georges BatailleReading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Joseph AddisonWomen are ultimately all that matters in life. Everything that we do is for them.
Emmanuel PetitThere are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.
Amy LeeI have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.
Mary HartA big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze OrmanHe it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.
Barry YelvertonYou spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Henry FieldingWe're trying to win but it's not life or death [on the Ryder Cup]
Darren ClarkeFear is my vessel, when I frown he flies;
A hundred times in life a coward dies
John MarstonI am flattered to be honoured personally in this way; and I am pleased at the prospect of making a wider contribution to British national life in the Lords [on receiving a peerage]
John BirtMarriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorFrom the first dawn of life unto the grave,
Poor womankind's in every state a slave.
('The Emulation' - 1703)
Sarah EgertonLife is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends what you put into it.
Tom LehrerIf I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
W C FieldsIs any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
PersiusNo one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De AngelisLife is what happens when you are making other plans.
John LennonWhen I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish.
Julio IglesiasThe only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott HamiltonArt is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S TrumanAs man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
Charles ChesnuttIf his theory is correct, he is in for real problems in the next life. He will probably be doomed to come back as Glenn Hoddle [on Hoddle's comments on reincarnation]
Tony BanksYou are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyse your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
W Clement StoneA finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought
Albert EinsteinFor God so loved the world that he gave his only son that we may have life
Jesus ChristIt's the most physically demanding thing I've done in my life. It's brutal. But I feel fitter now than I did at the start [on celebrity wrestling]
Annabel CroftEverywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do
Thomas CarlyleThe solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem. [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus]
Ludwig WittgensteinHow people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Jack NicklausIt is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing
David HumeMistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to errors that counts
Nikki GiovanniHow good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Robert Browning'Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.'
Pamela AndersonDifficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
Barbara De AngelisWe assess that there is no significant threat to the UK from nuclear weapons at present, but developments continue to be monitored closely. We remain committed to limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons through our international treaty obligations, and national programmes.
Geoff HoonA lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.
Christopher DardenI always wanted to do something special with my life. I didn’t just want it to pass me by when I got better. Having cancer made me a lot more determined to succeed.
Lee BrennanThis body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAmerica is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
D H LawrenceThere are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar WildeThe waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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