It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.
Theodore RooseveltThe Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy GrahamIt is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben SteinI have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.
Patrice EvraThough all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavour of the soup.
BuddhaMy philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah WinfreyThe very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac SingerGrow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made
Robert BrowningWe have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II]
Mahmoud AbbasA life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWe are responsible for our own choices in this life I always have been and so have reporters.
Ken LivingstoneArthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas AdamsIn taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, 'until death doth part.'
Emma GoldmanIf our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Pearl BuckA great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
Fran LebowitzA high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee WilliamsAll that counts in life is intention.
Andrea BocelliOne's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone De BeauvoirGod has plans which mortals don't understand. He rests in the womb when the new baby forms. Whispers the life dream to infinitesimal cells. It is God who lies under the thoughts of man. He is cartilage. Memory.
Ellease SoutherlandCan you imagine how much sex that man has had in his life? It boggles the mind to even consider it (on Tom Jones)
MobyI balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
W B YeatsCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Henry JamesHe is dreadfully married. He's the most married man I ever saw in my life
Artemus WardLife, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Stephen Butler LeacockIf I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head.
Brady UdallThe life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
C Wright MillsIt's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
Peter McWilliamsA lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred HitchcockDeath is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.
Yoda"There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life."
Michelle WilliamsIt has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
Ella WilcoxI'm afraid to be alone, I'm afraid not to be alone. I'm afraid of what I am, what I'm not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don't want to stay at my job for the rest of my life, but I'm afraid to leave. And I'm just tired, you know? I'm just so tired of being afraid.
Michelle PfeifferSenator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker. If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
Patricia HarrisYou will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob BronowskiI love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Yevgeny YevtushenkoThis is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for these players. Well, twice in a lifetime if you count the first match.
John MotsonRomance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Amanda CrossFor me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerPatriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai StevensonI've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden until the past few years.
Claire Tomalin'This huge life-changing moment of going from zero to ninety in two seconds!'
- on receiving her lead role on JAG
Catherine Bell"People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life."
Isadora DuncanIt is, I think, good evidence of life after death (on the quality of debate in the House of Lords)
Donald SoperThe courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Daniel BoorstinMirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Henry Ward Beecher 'Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination'
David RussellIf life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel ButlerThe secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail SheehyNever forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
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