I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.
Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
My dad excelled at so many sports in his life. Everything from professional football to being a world-class shot putter, but nothing meant as much to my dad as what he accomplished in the ring as a WWE Superstar.
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
There's nothing historically in my life very flashy. I'm not exceptionally beautiful. I'm not exceptionally wealthy.
I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.
Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
What excites me is just taking some time to breathe in life. The mundane is very exciting.
Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
I've had such an exciting life.
Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
