It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
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Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige.
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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.
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it. - Phoenissae
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone?The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.
There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
Life is too short for traffic.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise.
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Life is a progress, and not a station.
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation.
Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
From what we get, we can make a living what we give, however, makes a life.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.
I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want.
Is there life before death?
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
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.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: "Have no anxiety about the morrow"; or the words of Sir William Osler; "Live in day-tight compartments.
When we can say "no" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.