The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there?s purpose and worth to each and every life.
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.
Education is life itself.
Without question, reading has been the foundation of whatever success I've had in my life.
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it is one damn thing over and over.
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
The Meaning Of Life The reason that we're all here is that it was too crowded where we were supposed to go.
Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.
Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
People who keep journals have life twice.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Life is a progress, and not a station.
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story,
And the greatest good is little enough:
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
And the greatest good is little enough:
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.
What we play is life.
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.
Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun.
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.
Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity.
The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Live life to the fullest.
Life is a bitch get use to her or else she will make you pay for having her.
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.