Life Is Quotes - Page 21

• Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

  Peter Prange

  Perfection, Strive, Achieve

  Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• For a long time, my life has not been quote-unquote normal. And I'm OK with that, because what I'm trying to do is something that's above and beyond, that not very many people in America or the world have achieved at all. So, I don't mind that my life is so hectic and crazy.

  Mariel Zagunis

  Crazy, America, Long

  "Past wins aside, Mariel Zagunis still driven". Interview with Bonnie D. Ford, www.espn.com. December 8, 2011.

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• One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.

  Agnes Denes

  Lonely, Writing, Loner

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer.

  Julianna Margulies

  Children, Home, Love Life

  Source: variety.com

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• I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Things In Life, Cameras, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• All Life needs for life is possible to will.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Needs

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life Is Too Short, Imagination, Littles

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• The true object of human life is play.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Play, Human Life, Humans

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• We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clouds, Weather, Darkness

  William Blake (1910)

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• Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

  George Eliot

  Darkness, Secret, Wish

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.90, 谷月社

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• A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Short Life, Men, Order

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• Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Preparation

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• Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

  Cesare Pavese

  Maturity, Reflection, Long

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• Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

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• A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Want, Limitless

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• When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Thinking, Unhappy, Unhappiness

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• Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

  Eric Hoffer

  Spiritual, Men, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.

  Eric Hoffer

  Letting Go, Ideas, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Life Worth Living, Unexamined Life

  Apology, 38a (translated by H Tredennick).

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• Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Writing, Cells

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• The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Regret, Responsibility, Light

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• To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Choices, Important

  Samuel Johnson (1830). “Rasselas: A tale”, p.159

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• Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

  George Santayana

  Dream, And Love, Waking Life

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• Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

  John Keble

  Looks, Gains, Triumph

  John Keble (1842). “The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed”, p.273

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• No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

  Michael Novak

  Children, Compassion, Progress

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