Top 1200 Ideal Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it, you'd be unhappy because you'd never be able to reach it. You can incrementally improve your life, but you never quite experience the glamour. You never quite get to your utopia, or whatever it is. And once you realize that you can be quite Buddhist about it, and say, "Well, okay, I'm just going to keep detached from it all."

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.

Whey protein is taken very quickly into the bloodstream and there is a lot of waste, so it is not ideal on its own in most cases.

For families flying out of the U.K. for a winter getaway, airports should be the ideal place to pick up a bargain.

My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano.

The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.

I think French women are incredibly comfortable in their skin, whereas in the States people are striving more for one beauty ideal.

The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

It is quite sad, to me, that that ideal, that vision and understanding [of American founding ], doesn't seem to be a part of the current political season.

Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.

Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.

'Redbone' from Childish Gambino - that is my ideal summer tune. It's already gone and done its thing, but I want it to live on forever.

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life's big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams.

Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Ideally when you set up for the first game of the season... to have put the team to bed would be the ideal situation.

I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.

America is a nation founded by immigrants and built on the ideal that anyone can be an American if he or she believes in the principles and values of the Constitution.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after.

As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons in strong health and spirits, who take plenty of air and exercise, who are "in favor with, their stars," and have a thorough relish of the good things of this life, seldom devote themselves in despair to religion or the muses. Sedentary, nervous, hypochondriacal people, on the contrary, are forced, for want of an appetite for the real and substantial, to look out for a more airy food and speculative comforts.

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

In an ideal world, 'Doctor Who' makes the whole nation eight years old, with that excitement and engagement and wide-eyedness.

In an ideal world, the 'Daily Mail' would write about what a brilliant mother I am. But it's not going to happen.

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

The squat is ideal for building strength in the glutes, perhaps the most powerful collection of muscles in our bodies.

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

My most ideal date would be something spontaneous, probably a concert, where there's good music and we can talk and hang out.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

San Antonio is an ideal market for Major League Soccer. It's time that we put our best foot forward.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.

Tart and sweet, tinged with the faint scent of almonds and flowers, the Blenheim is the ideal apricot for both eating and preserving.