Quotes about: life

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
– John Muir
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
– John Muir
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
– Lewis Mumford
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
– Lewis Mumford
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
– Lewis Mumford
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
– Lewis Mumford
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
– Hector Hugh Munro
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
– Alice Munro
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
– Iris Murdoch
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
– Iris Murdoch
My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.
– Eddie Murphy
Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.
– Dick Murphy
People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
– Bill Murray
Is this the way of life that Islam teaches us? That we fight amongst ourselves and feel scared of fellow Muslims.
– Pervez Musharraf
We claim Islam as Deen or a complete way of life.
– Pervez Musharraf
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
– Wangari Maathai
The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in order to improve the quality of life of people in my country in particular and in the African region in general.
– Wangari Maathai
It is in plunging into the stream of life itself and entering into the deepest involvement with the values that confront us, exercising our wills to the utmost-to the breaking point-that we find God in the very extremity of the battle.
– Geddes MacGregor
I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.
– Alexander Mackenzie
I may have been a golden retriever in a past life. When I walk down the street, strange dogs I've never met before look at me and do double takes. They do. They look again.
– William H. Macy
Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
– Sydney Madwed
If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.
– Mia Maestro
But it was just like life was waiting for me to make that decision, and when I finally made it, it just took me places I never even believed existed.
– John Mahoney
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
– John Mahoney
I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.
– John Mahoney
So I was the associate editor of a medical journal in Chicago, and I was thirty seven, and all of a sudden I just sort of started going through this dark night of the soul... where I just... . Is this going to be it for me, am I going to be spending the rest of my life writing about cataracts and hemorrhoids... and... . just not what I wanted to do, and I was just intensely depressed all the time.
– John Mahoney
I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.
– Wendie Malick
I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.
– Wendie Malick
I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.
– Wendie Malick
We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
– George Leigh Mallory
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
– George Leigh Mallory
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
– Thomas La Mance
A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.
– Joe Manchin III
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
– Bernard Mandeville
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.
– Nong Duc Manh
Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.
– Tom Mann
The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world.It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you..
– Tom Mann
I'd probably try to stop the rain forests from being cut down. I'd probably join the revolution down south somewhere and try to save my life on the planet Earth. I might go to Libya. I might go see the Ayatollah. I might go to France, catch somebody in France I'm upset with.
– Charles Manson
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
– Franz Marc
I balance things better and don't kill myself so much, but conflict makes me a more interesting actress to watch. The places I go to to pull emotions from, I think if you have a perfect, happy life, you just don't have those places. And I want those places. I'm proud of those places.
– Vanessa Marcil
It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.
– Ferdinand E. Marcos
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
– Margrethe II
I'd love to play a drinkin', smokin', raspy talkin' dame. I'm also dying to do an 18th-century love story. I tested for this film last year that Helena Bonham Carter got, but I'll tell you, during the two hours I spent in that corset with my little English accent, I had the best time of my life.
– Julianna Margulies
Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.
– Mother Maribel
Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.
– Janice Markowitz
Life in part is what you make of it... in parting it is what it makes out of you.
– Janice Markowitz
I think that the biggest misconception I have run across is people assuming that this is my final destination - that being a model is the pinnacle of my life - how wrong they are!
– Shae Marks
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
– Garry Marshall
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
– Ralph Marston
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
– Ralph Marston
Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.
– Felix Marti-Ibanez
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
– Agnes Martin
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
– Agnes Martin
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
– Agnes Martin
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
– Agnes Martin
I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.
– Harvey Martin
Life is what happens while you are trying to get well.
– Patrick Mason
Accept, accept that I have won, whispers the Devil. You can see for yourself that life is unjust, unfair, that suffering is ordinary. Who is stronger? I am, of course. Just despair, my dear, despair. Only tell me that I am strong, that Evil rules.
– Suzanne Massie
I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.
– Jerry Mathers
There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
– Reginald Maudling
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
– Guy de Maupassant
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
– Samurai Maxim
The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
– Samurai Maxim
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.
– John C. Maxwell
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
– Benjamin E. Mays
What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
– Valeria Mazza
I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
– Rachel McAdams
I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
– Rachel McAdams
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
– Christa McAuliffe
If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.
– Joseph McCabe
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
– Eugene J. McCarthy
It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.
– Stella McCartney
I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
– Barbara McClintock
Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.
– David McCord
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
– Gates McFadden
When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.
– Danica McKellar
It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity.
– Ben McKenzie
Socialites kid each other, their way of life, their friends; and I kid the whole setup.
– Aileen Mehle
I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.
– Rita Mero
I would never discourage anyone from doing what it is in life that they want to do. But I would encourage them to find out the pros and cons of anything they become involved in.
– Rita Mero
There was absolutely no strain in marriage. Marc and I understand that this is a business. We have no problem separating our personal life with our personal life. And we have a very strong relationship.
– Rita Mero
Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
– William P. Merrill
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
– Paul Merton
Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.
– Debbie Meyer
It was a real experience, not just, 'I'm going to the Olympics,' but it was a life skill, an eye-opener to the real world situation. I was 16, gone from my parents for two months, living by myself in a hotel. I was in charge of how much I ate, how much sleep I got. You grow up extremely fast. You know how to set goals for yourself, and how to work toward those goals. You know time management and how to work through adversity.
– Debbie Meyer
No pomade or bear grease, not even baptism, can grow back the foreskin of which we were robbed on the eighth day of life; those who, on the ninth day, do not bleed to death from this operation shall continue to bleed an entire lifetime, even after death.
– Giacomo Meyerbeer
Life has taught me that if someone is being whipped and someone is whipping this person, I am always on the side of those who are being whipped. I've always criticized U.S. foreign policy for forgetting that the United States should defend those who need to be defended. I would object to U.S. policy if it supported Saddam Hussein, and I have always criticized the United States for supporting military regimes in Latin America.
– Adam Michnik
Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
– Myriam Miedzian
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
– Christina Milian
Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.
– Margaret Millar
The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
– Henry Mille
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
– James Nathan Miller
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life.
– John Homer Miller
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
– Kate Millet
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
– Kate Millett
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
– Kate Millett
There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.
– Heather Mills
The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.
– Czeslaw Milosz
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
– Helen Mirren