Life Quotes: Timeless Wisdom and Inspiration (Page 53)

"The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out"

Chris Brown, Musician

"Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'"

Chris Brown, Musician

"The quality of life is more important than life itself"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning"

Maya Lin, Architect

"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice"

Lord Acton, Historian

"I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"Man's loneliness is but his fear of life"

Eugene O'Neill, Dramatist

"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors"

Eugene O'Neill, Dramatist

"Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors"

Eugene O'Neill, Dramatist

"Married life is an existence with bars around it"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Life is a long lesson in humility"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'"

John Cleese, Actor

"Growth is the only evidence of life"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"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"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life"

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"My main goal as an artist is to make people happy and give them an escape from everyday life through my music"

Kygo, Musician

"Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction"

Pope Benedict XVI, Pope

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