Quotes about: life

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
– Kahlil Gibran
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.
– Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
– Kahlil Gibran
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
– Kahlil Gibran
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
– Andre Gide
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
– Andre Gide
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
– Andre Gide
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
– Andre Gide
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
– Brendan Gill
The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
– Brendan Gill
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
– Nikki Giovanni
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
– Nikki Giovanni
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
– Jean Giraudoux
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
– Jean Giraudoux
The stage was our school, our home, our life.
– Lillian Gish
What you get is a living, what you give is a life.
– Lillian Gish
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
– Lillian Gish
It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.
– William E. Gladstone
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
– William E. Gladstone
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
– Ellen Glasgow
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
– Ellen Glasgow
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
– Jackie Gleason
The power that an artist can have to move people, I just want to equip myself better with those kind of skills. I see myself as a character actor, not as a leading actor, and in something like Time of Your Life, I'm being asked to strengthen my chops and take some responsibilities. There's some kind of deepening that needs to be done.
– John Glover
When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success thing. Now I'm at a place in my life and career where I just want to work. It's what I do and it makes me very happy.
– John Glover
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
– Jean-Luc Godard
If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.
– Rumer Godden
Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
– Hermann Goering
Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis - German National Socialism.
– Hermann Goering
A useless life is an early death.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An unused life is an early death.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Superstition is the poetry of life.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - that can make life a garden.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.
– William Golding
In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.
– Emma Goldman
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
– Emma Goldman
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
– Emma Goldman
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
– Emma Goldman
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
– Oliver Goldsmith
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
– Barry M. Goldwater
The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
– Samuel Goldwyn
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
For comedy to be good, it has to be played straight. And again, the greatest example of this is Lucy Ball. No matter how wild the shows were that we did, no matter how bizarre the situations were, they were never played as if they were funny. They were played like serious incidents of ordinary everyday life. And that's why they are terribly funny and are still considered classic comedies.
– Gale Gordon
I've never been bored in my life working. A lot of people get bored after five minutes. They want to go home and pick up their check. That's never been the case for me. I'm always the first to arrive and the last to leave because I truly enjoy what I'm doing. That's why I've been in show business for so long-I love it!
– Gale Gordon
So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.
– Jeff Gordon
Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
– Edward Gorey
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
– Maxim Gorky
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
– Stephen Jay Gould
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
– Remy de Gourmont
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
– Billy Graham
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
– Billy Graham
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
– Martha Graham
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
– Ulysses S. Grant
Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.
– Amy Grant
Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.
– Amy Grant
For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.
– Amy Grant
I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.
– Amy Grant
I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.
– Amy Grant
I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.
– Amy Grant
I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life.
– Amy Grant
Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.
– Amy Grant
The hard times are several years behind me now. This is probably the most peaceful stretch of life I've known as an adult.
– Amy Grant
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.
– Amy Grant
Well, I do know that some of the most rewarding, exciting twists in my life are things I never anticipated'such as falling into a music career by accident. I made a tape for my mom and dad; without my knowing it, a friend who had some connections in music called a record company and played it over the phone to them. And then all of a sudden, I was on this path.
– Amy Grant
Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities.
– Charles Grassley
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
– Horace Greeley
By 1975, all this had happened: birth control wasn't wrong, premarital sex wasn't wrong, priests leaving the priesthood wasn't wrong, nuns leaving the religious life wasn't wrong. You didn't really have to go to mass every Sunday. You didn't have to go to confession before receiving communion every time. All of these things, which they never really understood and they didn't like, were just swept away.
– Andrew Greeley
I think that the core doctrines of Christianity-the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
– Andrew Greeley
If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
– Andrew Greeley
Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
– Andrew Greeley
What's more important? Life after death or birth control? What is more important? God's forgiving love or premarital sex?
– Andrew Greeley
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
– Philip Green
As the leader of the Catholic Church, the Holy Father planted seeds of hope in the hearts of millions, helping bring entire nations to the table of peace, and delivering them from tyranny. His ministry to the poor and oppressed was an example to us all, and inspired legions to pursue a life of faith and service. It is with heavy hearts that we say farewell to Pope John Paul II, our pilgrim of peace.
– Mark Green
There's an old saying that the only sure things in life are death and taxes. Well, in its never-ending appetite for more of your hard-earned income, the government has not only embraced that old saying, it's taken it a step further. Under the current tax code, Uncle Sam treats death as another chance to raid your savings, taking money that should go to your family and loved ones.
– Mark Green
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
– Julian Green
Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.
– Julian Green
I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.
– Seth Green
At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
– Graham Greene