Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George Orwell

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
Clint Eastwood

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Plutarch

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.
Dennis Miller

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord Byron

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Charles Spurgeon

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
Marianne Williamson

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
William Glasser

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
William Glasser

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
James A. Baldwin