Varied Life Quotes

There is a certain fine simplicity in a landscape from which the element of water, with all the varied life it brings in it murmuring train, is entirely absent. ~ Gertrude Bell

Things last either too long or not long enough. ~ Oscar Wilde

You're lying to yourself. Voron made us into serial killers. We can be okay without violence for a few weeks, but after a couple of months, the hand starts itching for the sword. You start looking for that rush. You get irritable, life turns stale, and then one day some fool crosses your path, attacks, and as you cut him down, you feel that short moment of struggle when he leverages his life against yours. If you're lucky, he's very good and the fight lasts a few seconds. But even if it doesn't, that short moment of triumph is like getting an adrenaline shot. Suddenly color comes back into life, food tastes better, sleep is deeper, and sex is rapture.
I knew exactly what he was talking about. I lived it and I felt it. ~ Ilona Andrews

Happiness is merely a consolation for not yet being dead. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life is a choice ... it's a choice to be successful. ~ Josh Thomson

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real. ~ Carrie Vaughn

Some times we need
to work hard
to get the JOB done ~ Sarvesh

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. ~ Emily Dickinson

Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle-jar (you will forgive me if I become florid for a moment) contains, therefore, the most exalted of possibilities: the feasibility of the chutnification of history; the grand hope of the pickling of time! ~ Salman Rushdie

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine. ~ Dick Cavett

HOBBES:
If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams. ~ Bill Watterson

To thrive in the post COVID19 context leaders will be forced to become more conscious and considerate in their human element situations.
Greeders will opt for digital first strategies, and less humans.
REAL leaders will take ownership of making their business a force-for-good, supporting People, Planet AND Profits. ~ Tony Dovale - LifeMasters

One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do with what does or does not happen. ~ Lemony Snicket

Danger is the spice of life and you've got to take a risk now and then ... that's what makes life worthwhile. ~ Anthony Hopkins

Good begets good; evil begets evil; and even if the good you give is met by evil, you have no choice but to go on giving better than you get. Otherwise-and these were Willy's exact words-why bother to go on living? ~ Paul Auster

Fashion has always been in my life, thanks to my mother and my aunt growing up. I think as I became an adult, my style evolved, and my love of fashion evolved even more. ~ Olivia Palermo

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz

me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life - it's not worth living. ~ Christie Golden

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough. ~ Richard Ford

As I get older the stars have gone from my eyes more, and I see that life is just something that has to be lived with, that it's better not to struggle. ~ Marian Keyes

We do not now stand in the middle; in every aspect of our life we have, deliberately or by the 'conditioning' of birth, education or environment, allowed ourselves to stand on one bank of the river of life, with some intolerance of those who were foolish enough to choose or be led to stand on the other. Thus we are male or female, old or young, of the East of West. By temperament we are introvert or extrovert, leaders of followers, all for action or striving rather to be. It surely follows that we should be more tolerant of the other fellow, equally right/wrong, and be less swift to judge him with our ignorant, lop-sided view and definite disapproval. In any event, do we have to express an opinion, presume to judge? ~ Christmas Humphreys

Skeptics might argue that pharmaceutical companies will fight anything that casts their products in a dubious light - especially if it results in people using lower doses across the board - but the truth is that, for many drug companies, reliable information on the placebo effect can't come soon enough. To pass muster, a drug must outperform placebo. But a 2001 study of antidepressant drug trials showed that while drug efficacy is rising, placebo rates are rising faster. It's almost ironic; the factors behind this are many and varied, but a significant contributor is our society's knowledge of - and belief in - the power of medicines. The pharmaceutical industry's palpable success means that unless something radical happens, it could soon be, like the Red Queen, running to stand still. ~ Michael Brooks

Why do men entertain this queer idea that what is sordid must always overthrow what is magnanimous; that there is some dim connection between brains and brutality, or that it does not matter if a man is dull so long as he is also mean? Why do they vaguely think of all chivalry as sentiment and all sentiment as weakness? They do it because they are, like all men, primarily inspired by religion. For them, as for all men, the first fact is their notion of the nature of things; their idea about what world they are living in. And it is their faith that the only ultimate thing is fear and therefore that the very heart of the world is evil. They believe that death is stronger than life, and therefore dead things must be stronger than living things; whether those dead things are gold and iron and machinery or rocks and rivers and forces of nature. ~ G.K. Chesterton

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. ~ Suzanne Curchod

If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face.
My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness.
I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ~ Alice Hoffman

If you are working on something, about to deliver it, moments from opening the doors, an hour from everybody arriving, a week from the release date, two minutes from getting the results back, and you have butterflies in your stomach, be grateful.

You are in a wonderful place.
Nerves are God's gift to you, reminding you that your life is not passing you by.

Make friends with the butterflies.
Welcome when they come, revel in them, enjoy them, and if they go away, do whatever it takes to put yourself in a position where they return.

Better to have a stomach full of butterflies than to feel like your life is passing you by. ~ Rob Bell

Lisa: It just seems a bit of a waste.
Ed: Waste of what?
Lisa: Waste of time… of life.
Ed: That's the point, isn't it? To waste time until you die. You have to waste the time. ~ Catherine O'Flynn

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life. ~ Kiki Smith

Success is not a question of how much power or money you have acquired.
It is a question of how satisfied you are with WHO YOU ARE. ~ Gordana Biernat

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now. ~ Barbara Deming

When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone. ~ Robert Breault

Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Donot let people rule your life,
donot let anyone to dominate you,donot let anyone to live your dreams...
Just make your own identity,
Just prove yourself,
Just live your life in your manner,
live your life, love it, live it like heaven. ~ Himadri Singh

On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope. ~ Helen Caldicott

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens. ~ Mary Norris

Life is what happens to you whilst you busy making other plans ~ John Lennon

If you have confidence, you can achieve anything in life". ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled. ~ Charlize Theron

Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone. A fragmented love which makes others lose will eventually turn upon itself and destroy the very thing which was being so carefully guarded. An open-hearted love will follow a course which can only lead somewhere good. ~ Donna Goddard

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting. ~ Paul Simon

Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out myself. And I saw how much was there and what could be done and how I could make a life of it. ~ E. O. Wilson

I experienced a terrible sense of my own mortality as it struck me that during my life I would only remove and replace my glasses a specific number of times. The thought filled me with sombreness to the extent that I began to weep, removing my glasses so that I could wipe my eyes, thus adding one more to whatever the final number would have been; the realisation of which cheered me.

- A spectacular tale ~ John Hegley