Top 1200 Great Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

Not everyone would choose to pay the costly price of being a great artist. To many, the riches of life are quite different. A skill in day-to-day living which adds up to a happy, love-filled life is success. You can have this and other riches, too. The choice is yours.

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

Life is the wave's deep whisper on the shore Of a great sea beyond.

The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.

Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy.

Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will he make of you now? Will he make you into a rat's liver? Will he make you into an insect's leg?' Tzu-Lai replied, 'The universe gave me my body so I may be carried, my life so I may work, my old age so I may repose, and my death so I may rest. To regard life as good is the way to regard death as good. . . . If I regard the universe as a great furnace and creation as a master foundryman, why should anywhere I go not be all right?'

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.

Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.

In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.

The great blessing of life is the existence of tomorrows - and having dreams to realize.

Trapeze is a great workout. It got me in the best shape in my life.

Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.

It's a great place to be at 36 because you're an adult and you're responsible for how you impact other people, the direction of your own life [too], but you're also young enough to say, "You know what? I'm not sure of where I'm at, and I'm going to change that course and do something different. I'm going to look at life differently." I think that's the magic of that age.

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.

I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

Life is one of Gods greatest Journeys, But Death is the next great Adventure.

I want to run for eternal glory and track is great, but it's not what life is all about.

My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible.

I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.

And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified.

From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.

Australia has the British way of life - and great weather. I could live there.

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.