Life Quotes

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

God continues to work miracles in my life.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

Life is a school of probability.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.