But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert CamusWe must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
Mary Kay AshDeath cannot come
To him untimely who is fit to die;
The less of this cold world, the more of heaven;
The briefer life, the earlier immortality
H H MilmanAnd, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.
Malik YobaSatisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur SchopenhauerBelieve that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William JamesEverywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do
Thomas CarlyleThe experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself- always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy CarterLife is a book. Once you reach the end, there is no more. You can't keep reading. You are done. But look. Each stage in your life - going to high school, getting married, moving to a different city, having children, traveling to a new country - is a different chapter. Each chapter holds surprises, joys, and hardships. Look at it that way, and look forward to beginning that new chapter. You can never get on with the story if you don't keep reading.
Jesse AdamsThe secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard CohenThe unexamined life is not worth living.
SocratesPerhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth
Gene FowlerI don't feel integrated into English life at all. We cannot speak English, we don't know the culture and we are scared of appearing rude.
Sun JihaiThe supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved
Victor HugoI hope that my experiences in my life have actually helped me understand that I do want crime tackled [on smoking cannabis]
Jacqui SmithOne man has enthusiasm 10 minutes, another 10 days, but it is the man who has it 10 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward B ButlerI noticed more and more people gathering around me. I had absolutely no idea I had converted to Islam and handed my life over to it.
Ronnie O'SullivanIf I've met three geniuses in my life, Marlon [Brando] would have to be top of the list.
Francis Ford CoppolaAttachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi's life. So, you might say that we are encouraged to love. [on loving Padme Amidala]
Anakin SkywalkerThe half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
Sir Walter ScottWhat is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
Richard J DaleyAfter I had my son, I found life much funnier and brighter
Sherilyn FennI don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.
Sharon StoneLife in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George SandThe first thing I saw was 'A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far, Far Away'. Anybody who knows me knows my life changed at that moment [on seeing Star Wars]
John SingletonMy focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
Jim CarreyThe stories that I was telling during that time, I didn't know how strong they really were until I got a little older and then listened to them over again and in those stories was pretty much my life.
Bobby BlandLoss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B H Liddell HartIt's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has many characters, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it.
John CrowleyOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Tennessee WilliamsIn 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 GoldmanFrom the very first day I met Karen Hardy she has given me the experience of a lifetime
Mark RamprakashLife was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.
F Scott FitzgeraldA man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Albert Schweitzer Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis BaconNirvana saved my lizard. I bought an iguana and for two days it didn’t move. Then I put on Smells Like Teen Spirit and it came to life. That’s when I knew this was a great record.
Mark Owen'I spend a lot of my life in back of cars - Oops! I didn't mean that in the way it sounded. Like hence the two kids.'
Kerry KatonaThe hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David RussellI’d go gay for her. She was a fascinating and exotic woman. There was so much to admire about her. She lived life to the full, maybe a little too fully. I want to release the inner Tallulah in me. God knows I can’t get a man - so maybe I should cross over [on Tallulah Bankhead]
Kylie MinogueI have never come across anything like this in my life.... The timing is not great, but if it's going to happen it happens
[on two of his players testing positive for drugs]
Bob WoolmerAs a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.
Gresham BarrettOur evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
Boris PasternakI've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.
Nicole RichieSuccess is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Anthony TrollopeYou spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Henry FieldingI love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.
Neil SimonI'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Rodney DangerfieldI think it will help people have a better work-life balance, that's really important - that's the centre ground for me, it's the issues people care about in their lives.
David CameronLife appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte
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