Quotes About Life

Do men read "self-help" books? Yes. They are called "business books"—self-help books for dads to do better in their business so their families can do better in life.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.

Your life is God's gift. Your deeds are God's reward. And God watches.

splinter in the butt as you slide down the banister of life

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Digamos que el pobre maestro hubiera podido disfrutar por mucho tiempo de una existencia plácida y feliz, ... de no haberse cruzado en su camino la criatura que más turbaciones causa en la existencia del hombre, mayores aún que cualesquiera espectros, demonios y brujos juntos: una mujer.

My whole course of life," I observed, "has been desultory, and I am unfitted for any periodically recurring task, or any stipulated labor of body or mind. I have no command of my talents, such as they are, and have to watch the varyings of my mind as I would those of a weathercock.

In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating on the vices and follies of mankind; and when the universal pursuit of gain is trampling down the early growth of poetic feeling, and wearing out the verdure of the soul, I question whether it would not be of service for the reader occasionally to turn to these records of prouder times and loftier modes of thinking; and to steep himself to the very lips in old Spanish romance.

There is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures—provided we will but take a joke as we find it

and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was—a woman.

Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.

Cada cuadro encierra misteriosamente toda una vida, toda una vida con muchos sufrimientos, dudas, horas de entusiasmo y de luz. ¿Hacia dónde clama el alma del artista, si también participó en la creación? ¿Qué proclama? «Enviar luz a las profundidades del corazón humano es la misión del artista», dice Schumann. «El pintor es un hombre que sabe dibujar y pintar todo», dice Tolstoi.

The onlooker turns from the artist who has higher ideals and who cannot see his life purpose in an art without aims.

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

this book puts the FUN in Disfunctional

Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.

You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one. -Kenshin to Eiji

No, that's not the case at all. Shishio's logic dictates that the winner of a battle, in other words, the strong, is always correct that it does. If the truth could be discovered through fighting one or two battles, then we'd all be going through life without ever being wrong. A person's life isn't so simple a matter that it isn't. The true answer is something you find out yourself by how you live your life from this day onward that it is." -Kenshin

I need his dreams. Life isn't life without them. And if he can give me the dreams, I think I can hold the rest together.

The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.