Life Quotes

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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

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.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Life must be lived as play.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.