Explore Quotes on Life Is

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

What wondrous life is this I lead!_x000D__x000D_Ripe apples drop about my head;_x000D__x000D_The luscious clusters of the vine_x000D__x000D_Upon my mouth do crush their wine;_x000D__x000D_The nectarine and curious peach_x000D__x000D_Into my hands themselves do reach;_x000D__x000D_Stumbling on melons, as I pass,_x000D__x000D_Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

My life is like the summer rose_x000D__x000D_That opens to the morning sky, _x000D__x000D_But ere the shades of evening close _x000D__x000D_Is scattered on the ground - to die.

Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes_x000D__x000D_What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes_x000D__x000D_Only two things that money can't buy_x000D__x000D_That's true love and home grown tomatoes.

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

To be true to one's self is the ultimate test in life. To have courage and the sensitivity to follow your hidden dreams and stand tall against the odds that are bound to fall in your path. Life is too short and precious to be dealt with in any other fashion. This thought I hold dear to my heart and I always try to be true to myself and others that I encounter along the way.

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.