Quotes About Life

Here is God's purpose — for God, to me it seems, is a verb — not a noun, proper or improper...

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

I mean to say, we all sprang from humble origins. Goodness gracious, who would have thought that a species of monkey would take over the kingdom of the world. … I cannot help but feel that the monkey was not a good choice. Surely one of the cat family would have been much more satisfactory. They have a much less emotional approach to life. ("The Shadmock")

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate.

I wouldn't mind dying — it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes.That's me also.

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

Conversion meant a conscious turning away from the old way of life.

The colossal slide of integrity (especially masculine ethics) has grim spiritual, domestic, and political implications which threaten the survival of life as we know it.

This tremendous lesson from the life of Moses teaches us that one can be regarded as hugely successful in the ministry and yet be a failure.

It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

For a child of five, art is life and life is art... but once the child is in school they get separated--art becomes art and life becomes life.

They worry because their brain is demanding closure on a specific issue. Their mind says, "This is how it must turn out for me to feel secure. And I must feel secure. Do I know for certain it will turn out this way?" It is as though they require a one-hundred percent guarantee that they will encounter zero risk. That is simply too much to ask of life.

For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.

Knowledge and book learning are not wisdom," said the captain. "Is this book wisdom?" asked Lucy, putting the manuscript back on the table. "It has some elements of wisdom in it, me dear," replied the captain. "I did not lead a very wise life myself but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come to age very often through shipwreck and disaster, and at the heart of the whirlpool some men find God.

I must be very selfish, she thought, for I want to set nothing and no one right; all I want is to be left in peace to make what I can of this problem called life for myself and my children.

Damn it, my language is most controlled, madam," said Captain Gregg stiffly, "and as for my morals, I can assure you that no woman has ever been the worse in body or pocket for knowing me, and I'd like to know how many mealy-mouthed psalm-singers can say the same. I've lived a man's life and I'm not ashamed of it, but I've always tried to tell the truth and shame the devil.

But lately I have learned what it is to be human. Learned, but not understood. It seems to involve a great deal of misery crammed into a very short lifetime." His

Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.