Quotes about Sense of Life

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. Votes: 4

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities. Votes: 4

Writing is making sense of life. Votes: 3

In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love. Votes: 3

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others. Votes: 3

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. Votes: 3

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with. Votes: 3

I had learnt to seek intensity "” more of life, a concentrated sense of life. Votes: 3

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art. Votes: 3

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity. Votes: 3

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. Votes: 3

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural. Votes: 3

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. Votes: 3

God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not your real life. Votes: 3

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light. Votes: 3

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts. Votes: 3

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life. Votes: 3

I try to make sense of life. I try to keep myself open to people and to laughter and to love and to have faith. Votes: 3

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax. Votes: 3

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life. Votes: 3

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. Votes: 3

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern. Votes: 3

Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return. Votes: 3

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us. Votes: 3

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality. Votes: 3

The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a framework of order ... all great art ... harmonises consciousness with the ego-transcending Self. Votes: 3

Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other hand, engages you, enthralls and satisfies you, it contributes to the meaning of your life Votes: 3

In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with. Votes: 3

In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with." Votes: 3

I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness. Votes: 3

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. Votes: 3

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. Votes: 3

Don't fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing." Votes: 3

When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context. Votes: 3

It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them. Votes: 3

My life style in a sense is kind of private. Votes: 2

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life. Votes: 2

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. Votes: 2

There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life. Votes: 2

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists. Votes: 2

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Votes: 2

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life. Votes: 2

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it. Votes: 2

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life. Votes: 2

Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from. Votes: 2

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense. Votes: 2

Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour. Votes: 2

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go. Votes: 2

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions. Votes: 2

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now. Votes: 2

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor? Votes: 2

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing. Votes: 2

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige. Votes: 2

Common sense is calculation applied to life. Votes: 0

Passion is what gives sense to our life. Votes: 0

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life. Votes: 0

The best things in life don't make sense Votes: 0

"Life Diamond". . . Job. Family. Society. Sense of Self... Votes: 0

Develop a sense of urgency in your life. Votes: 0

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking. Votes: 0

Might as Well Laugh ...remember ...when ...Life ...made ...sense Votes: 0

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn't it? Votes: 0

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern? Votes: 0

Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life. Votes: 0

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make? Votes: 0

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life. Votes: 0

Life only makes sense when our highest ideal is to serve Christ! Votes: 0

Sometimes the best cure for life's woes is a sense of humor. Votes: 0

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty. Votes: 0

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life. Votes: 0

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. Votes: 0

I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things. Votes: 0

Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on... Votes: 0

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity. Votes: 0

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense. Votes: 0

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance. Votes: 0

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur. Votes: 0

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition. Votes: 0

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life. Votes: 0

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense. Votes: 0

People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life. Votes: 0

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience. Votes: 0

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life. Votes: 0

I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people cant comprehend. Votes: 0

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life. Votes: 0

Have an intrinsic sense of direction of life. Have a goal-oriented conviction and trust. Votes: 0

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act. Votes: 0

Having a sense of purpose in life is the best way to avoid dispair. Votes: 0

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life. Votes: 0

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it. Votes: 0

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous. Votes: 0

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank. Votes: 0

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor. Votes: 0

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. Votes: 0

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history. Votes: 0

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply. Votes: 0

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance. Votes: 0

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. Votes: 0

The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change. Votes: 0

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life. Votes: 0

In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life. Votes: 0

Loosening control of your life into Gods hands brings an overwhelming sense of peace and confidence. Votes: 0

Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address. Votes: 0

Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life. Votes: 0

Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life. Votes: 0

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. Votes: 0

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity. Votes: 0

In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense. Votes: 0

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings. Votes: 0

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been. Votes: 0

Enjoyment of life generally includes being socially connected, having fun, and feeling a sense of purpose. Votes: 0

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life. Votes: 0

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted. Votes: 0

I get happier every day. I have a sense of accomplishment every day of my life. Votes: 0

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another. Votes: 0

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense. Votes: 0

I suffer from the sense that everything good in my life is about to go away. Votes: 0

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Votes: 0

Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense. Votes: 0

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty. Votes: 0

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder. Votes: 0

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. Votes: 0

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts. Votes: 0

I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense. Votes: 0

Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary. Votes: 0

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity. Votes: 0

I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns. Votes: 0

Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else? Votes: 0

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Votes: 0

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. Votes: 0

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason. Votes: 0

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. Votes: 0

I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death. Votes: 0

I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella. Votes: 0

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't. Votes: 0

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better. Votes: 0

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. Votes: 0

The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness. Votes: 0

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. Votes: 0

In everyday life, I use positive thoughts, sense of humor, Taekwondo, running, and yoga to make me stronger. Votes: 0

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect. Votes: 0

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life. Votes: 0

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. Votes: 0

When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life. Votes: 0

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Votes: 0

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach. Votes: 0

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time. Votes: 0

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor. Votes: 0

For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life. Votes: 0

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time. Votes: 0

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Votes: 0

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach." Votes: 0

I feel like my life has been a series of miracles. I was in every sense a lost cause. Votes: 0

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense. Votes: 0

I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey Votes: 0

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life. Votes: 0

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life. Votes: 0

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life. Votes: 0

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable. Votes: 0

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor. Votes: 0

When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense. Votes: 0

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. Votes: 0

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. Votes: 0

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot. Votes: 0

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor Votes: 0

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ? Votes: 0

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. Votes: 0

I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man. Votes: 0

After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas. Votes: 0

I hope the people remember Dolce & Gabbana for the sensuality, for the Mediterranean sense, for our honesty to the life. Votes: 0

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. Votes: 0

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool. Votes: 0

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible. Votes: 0

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness. Votes: 0

Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre. Votes: 0

A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life. Votes: 0

Faith is a way of going within and creating a sense of control over one's life at any given moment. Votes: 0

Without sense of purpose and clear direction of your life, you will only be building a fake brand of you Votes: 0

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited. Votes: 0

Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission. Votes: 0

Cultivate your sense of humour. On life's journey from nappy rash to denture adhesive, humour is a great pain reliever. Votes: 0

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense. Votes: 0

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh. Votes: 0

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one. Votes: 0

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. Votes: 0

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning. Votes: 0

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. Votes: 0

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. Votes: 0

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense. Votes: 0

Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once. Votes: 0

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life. Votes: 0

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. Votes: 0

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything... Votes: 0

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. Votes: 0

The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes. Votes: 0

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. Votes: 0

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. Votes: 0

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. Votes: 0

Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness. Votes: 0

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. Votes: 0

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. Votes: 0

You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places. Votes: 0

Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection. Votes: 0

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. Votes: 0

Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection. Votes: 0

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. Votes: 0

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence. Votes: 0

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. Votes: 0

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom." Votes: 0

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth. Votes: 0

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend. Votes: 0

I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost. Votes: 0

A sense of Jesus' absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he's working already in your life. Votes: 0

No matter how long you practiceyou sense there will always be something to learn,something more to embrace about yourself & life. Votes: 0

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small. Votes: 0

I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction. Votes: 0

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth. Votes: 0

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. Votes: 0

Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement. Votes: 0

How much longer will I live? (Urian) You're immortal, barring death. (Acheron) That doesn't make sense. (Urian) Most of life doesn't. (Acheron) Votes: 0

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. Votes: 0

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all. Votes: 0

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. Votes: 0

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life. Votes: 0

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. Votes: 0

Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul. Votes: 0

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning. Votes: 0

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. Votes: 0

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life. Votes: 0

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained. Votes: 0

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity. Votes: 0

Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world. Votes: 0

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social." Votes: 0

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk. Votes: 0

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it. Votes: 0

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. Votes: 0

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible. Votes: 0

One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure. Votes: 0

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you. Votes: 0

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue] Votes: 0

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same. Votes: 0

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. Votes: 0

The journey home to God is what life is about. In a sense it's not even a journey. It's an ongoing experience. Votes: 0

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. Votes: 0

What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise. Votes: 0

Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever. Votes: 0

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same. Votes: 0

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others. Votes: 0

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life. Votes: 0

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. Votes: 0

The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right. Votes: 0

If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you Votes: 0

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. Votes: 0

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life. Votes: 0

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? Votes: 0

You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it. Votes: 0

My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together. Votes: 0

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste. Votes: 0

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this. Votes: 0

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears. Votes: 0

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. Votes: 0

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life. Votes: 0

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. Votes: 0

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value. Votes: 0

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness. Votes: 0

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can. Votes: 0

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple. Votes: 0

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily! Votes: 0

When I was at the interview asked how I cope with life's difficulties, I said that saving sense of humor. I'm not lying ... Votes: 0

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm. Votes: 0

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. Votes: 0

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. Votes: 0

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist. Votes: 0

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other. Votes: 0

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other. Votes: 0

Perhaps this is what it was all about. Leaning on God when life made no sense, as well as when the answers seem clear. Votes: 0

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority. Votes: 0

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns. Votes: 0

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life. Votes: 0

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot. Votes: 0

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful. Votes: 0

That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection. Votes: 0

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. Votes: 0

I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it. Votes: 0

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art. Votes: 0

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations. Votes: 0

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country. Votes: 0

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense. Votes: 0

Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. Votes: 0

I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world. Votes: 0

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose. Votes: 0

I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in my life. Votes: 0

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life. Votes: 0

To me, it's always good to retain a sense of wonder and never good too big for life, like you've seen it all before. Votes: 0

Until people can relate to you and attach a sense of significance and importance to your life, your life is not making an impact. Votes: 0

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life. Votes: 0

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how. Votes: 0

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things. Votes: 0

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being. Votes: 0

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere. Votes: 0

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest. Votes: 0

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft. Votes: 0

I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media. Votes: 0

When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway. Votes: 0

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene. Votes: 0

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. Votes: 0

The cemetery is my sense of comfort, my sanctuary in a world of darkness, the one piece of light that i have in my life. Votes: 0

We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life. Votes: 0

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Votes: 0

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion. Votes: 0

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work. Votes: 0

You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter. Votes: 0

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality. Votes: 0

Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things. Votes: 0

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know. Votes: 0

Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots! Votes: 0

Throughout my life, I've learned to make choices that make me happy and make sense for me. Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. Votes: 0

I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life. Votes: 0

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful. Votes: 0

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement. Votes: 0

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way. Votes: 0

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. Votes: 0

A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps. Votes: 0

The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life. Votes: 0

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life. Votes: 0

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life. Votes: 0

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. Votes: 0

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others. Votes: 0

Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING. Votes: 0

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others. Votes: 0

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide. Votes: 0

For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction. Votes: 0

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop. Votes: 0

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together. Votes: 0

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. Votes: 0

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.... Votes: 0

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort. Votes: 0

Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word life, and, on rare occasions, happiness. Votes: 0

I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it." Votes: 0

We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death. Votes: 0

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. Votes: 0

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason. Votes: 0

Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me. Votes: 0

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life. Votes: 0

Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment. Votes: 0

How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction. Votes: 0

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective. Votes: 0

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning Votes: 0

When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one's life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity. Votes: 0

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. Votes: 0

If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility Votes: 0

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them. Votes: 0

In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them. Votes: 0

[I'm a conscious parent when I believe] a parent's presence in their child's life is of paramount value and provides the foundation for their sense of worth. Votes: 0

Without awareness, the current of life cedes its sense of control to other deceptive agents that take you into a life that is toxic rather than nourishing. Votes: 0

The biggest void that people can have in their lives is a sense of humor. Spending your life with someone who doesn't have that wouldn't be palatable. Votes: 0

Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together. Votes: 0

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor. Votes: 0

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting. Votes: 0

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do. Votes: 0

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else. Votes: 0

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. Votes: 0

We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other humans... In its deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of the Creator in us. Votes: 0

I guess God has a sense of humor, when he had a man that wanted to start his life as a priest, end up marrying a preacher. Votes: 0

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul. Votes: 0

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels. Votes: 0

My life don't make a lot of sense.... It don't make sense that I go around the country killing people. Period. It don't make sense doing that. Votes: 0

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life. Votes: 0

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism. Votes: 0

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it. Votes: 0

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose. Votes: 0

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed Votes: 0

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama. Votes: 0

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist. Votes: 0

In real life, Josh [Gad] is a different kind of lovable idiot. In real life, he's a much filthier idiot. He has a dirty sense of humor. Votes: 0

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it. Votes: 0

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. Votes: 0

Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be. Votes: 0

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel. Votes: 0

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place. Votes: 0

Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it. Votes: 0

He was through playing games. When it came to Soteria, he had no sense of humor whatsoever. Anyone who threatened her, ended their life. It was that simple. Votes: 0

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry. Votes: 0

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life. Votes: 0

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life. Votes: 0

I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general. Votes: 0

When you are following dharma, you will be happy, at peace, still inside. There will be a sense of purpose to your life. Difficulties will not seem unconquerable. Votes: 0

Life is learning how to deal with traffic. It requires patience, a good sense of timing, and sometimes not giving in to the traffic but reshaping your life. Votes: 0

I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective. Votes: 0

I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile. Votes: 0

If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude. Votes: 0

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. Votes: 0

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world. Votes: 0

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging. Votes: 0

You are the reality.The sense of of worship, love, devotion and loyalty.You are the purpose of life and existence. That is why I am still alive. Votes: 0

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began. Votes: 0

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work. Votes: 0

Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life. Votes: 0

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life. Votes: 0

You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self. Votes: 0

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding. Votes: 0

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour. Votes: 0

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility. Votes: 0

Nurturing a child's sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child's life. Votes: 0

I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people, who feel deeply life's absurdity. Votes: 0

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action Votes: 0

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal. Votes: 0

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection. Votes: 0

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else. Votes: 0

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece. Votes: 0

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme. Votes: 0

You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace. Votes: 0

The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer & more certain than sense & life itself. Votes: 0

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life. Votes: 0

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life. Votes: 0

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day." Votes: 0

I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense of who anyone is through social media. Votes: 0

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five. Votes: 0

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist? Votes: 0

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word. Votes: 0

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there. Votes: 0

Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes. Votes: 0

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day. Votes: 0

We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us. Votes: 0

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe. Votes: 0

Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards. Votes: 0

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life. Votes: 0

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally. Votes: 0

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist. Votes: 0

When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life. Votes: 0

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Votes: 0

We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas. Votes: 0

In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos. Votes: 0

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect. Votes: 0

All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life's next adventure. Votes: 0

Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life. Votes: 0

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation. Votes: 0

Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise. Votes: 0

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done. Votes: 0