Quotes on Life

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

When I was harassed and discriminated against, I fought as hard as I could - because I hadn't gone through all of that, I hadn't worked so hard my entire life, just to have someone take it away from me.

When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

Water is commonly regarded as the 'solvent of life,' since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants are also primarily water. The organization of water within biological compartments is fundamental to life, and the aquaporins serve as the plumbing systems for cells.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

The definition of the good life is doing creative things, whether making music, trying to figure out how to do a particular piece of code, or putting together investments.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.