Life Is Quotes - Page 20

• What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Realization, Next, Lifetime

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• To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Jobs, Done

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• The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Next, Birth, Far Away

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• If you feel some tremendous pressure to do everything perfectly so you won't have a horrible incarnation in your next life - that type of fear is unnecessary. Life is not that finicky.

  Frederick Lenz

  Next, Pressure, Unnecessary

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• Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Change, Creative

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• Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

  Peter Prange

  Perfection, Strive, Achieve

  Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• For a long time, my life has not been quote-unquote normal. And I'm OK with that, because what I'm trying to do is something that's above and beyond, that not very many people in America or the world have achieved at all. So, I don't mind that my life is so hectic and crazy.

  Mariel Zagunis

  Crazy, America, Long

  "Past wins aside, Mariel Zagunis still driven". Interview with Bonnie D. Ford, www.espn.com. December 8, 2011.

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• The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.

  Benjamin Carson

  Environment, Persons, Happens

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain, cold, and heat; cars are there to overcome distances. Culture is the exception. Music, art, and all of the different cultural expressions are not going in that direction. They're not about comfort; they're about understanding each other.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Art, Distance, Rain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.

  Agnes Denes

  Lonely, Writing, Loner

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer.

  Julianna Margulies

  Children, Home, Love Life

  Source: variety.com

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• I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.

  Robert Reich

  Years, Income, Inequality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Things In Life, Cameras, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• All Life needs for life is possible to will.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Needs

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Regret, Ambition, Men

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

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• An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

  John F. Kennedy

  Artist, Discovery, Discipline

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• Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Women, Thinking, Long

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• Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life Is Too Short, Imagination, Littles

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• The true object of human life is play.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Play, Human Life, Humans

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• Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sex, Wish, Important

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• We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clouds, Weather, Darkness

  William Blake (1910)

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• Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

  George Eliot

  Darkness, Secret, Wish

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.90, 谷月社

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• Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

  George Eliot

  Cutting, Two, Ties

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6046, Delphi Classics

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• A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Short Life, Men, Order

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• Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Preparation

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