Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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.
What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.
I think we’re too young to be dating. I mean I don’t see what the rush is. Summer says. Yeah, I agree, said August. Which is kind of a shame, you know what with all those babes who keep throwing themselves at me and stuff?
I didn’t want any flowers, I only wantedTo lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.How free it is, you have no idea how free——The peacefulness is so big it dazes you,And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets.It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.–from Tulips, written 18 March 1961
You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.