Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another – that’s what, in fact, makes life worth living.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble rank – I blush not to state it, nor am I sorry – for the profit of others. In short, I am a slave in Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of the eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.
Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
There are millions of stars out there. It is difficult to think that life does not exist in any one of them.
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction
that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful.
If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction
that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that
you want to be like.
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.
You will be fine,’ the fortune teller says. ‘There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.
You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.
Dan, I’m not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I’d explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?
Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person’s eyes maybe died back in childhood.
I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.
Inside, though, I was already broken.
Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.
It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years….. Always remember this, Squadron Leader. It was our war, our victory and now it is our Berlin. We tolerate your presence in this city… if that.
Those guys who want to have the Mohawk…which, to me, is the new business casual.
You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.
If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.
If her enemies were Brigan’s friends and her friends were Brigan’s enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.
When you’re the most happening person at the party, it’s time to leave