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Life Quotes (page 351)

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday. Agatha Christie
William Shakespeare quote: "The devil take order! I'll to the throng: Let life be short,..."
The devil take order! I'll to the throng: Let life be short, else shame will be too long. William Shakespeare
"for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart. Gustave Flaubert
The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way. Paulo Coelho
I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line. Peter O'Toole
The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's still exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather--all pervasive and so virtually impossible... Michael Pollan
Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain? Anne Lamott
Milan Kundera quote: "extremes mean borders beyond which life ends…and a passion for..."
extremes mean borders beyond which life ends…and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death. Milan Kundera
You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first. Haruki Murakami
The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close. Steven Spielberg
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you? L. M. Montgomery
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa--..."
One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it. Friedrich Nietzsche
everyone is a geniusbut if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will spend the rest of its life thinking its an idiot. Albert Einstein
Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles! Robert Bolt
What bothers me today is the lack of, well, I guess you'd call it authentic experience. So much is a sham. So much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized. You know, less than half a century ago there were sixty-three varieties of lettuce in California alone. Today, there are four. And they are not the four best lettuces, either; not the most tasty or nutritious. They are the hybrid lettuces with built-in shelf life, the ones that have a safe, clean, consistent look in the... Tom Robbins

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