But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.
— Pamela Druckerman
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
— James Lane Allen
No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
— William Butler Yeats
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
— Phillips Brooks
All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.
— Alice Hegan Rice
Ideal is the one, who knows the self. — Abhijit Naskar
Today's ideal worker is not the anonymous shift worker but the enlightened genius who never stops working. — Miya Tokumitsu
Now is the time to lead your ideal life. — Phil Cousineau
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.- Aristotle — Aristotle.
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. — William J. Mayo
We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving. — Paulo Coelho
I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. — Elie Wiesel
But, as with most things in life, the ideal and the reality were two separate things. — Brandon Sanderson
Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience. — Charles Horton Cooley
Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life. — Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. — George Sand
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal. — Herbert Croly
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. — Victor Hugo
Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? — Jeanette Winterson
Make the man within your living ideal. — Karl G. Maeser
Suki is the nation's ideal girlfriend, a woman for whom bubbliness is a way of life, verging on a disorder. — David Nicholls
Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal ... The nude is not a 'genre' subject. — Isabel Bishop
This was how they wished they had been: each was creating an ideal into which he was now fitting his past life. — Gustave Flaubert
The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom. — Matt Damon
The forest, the virgin forest, the life of a woodcutter - that has always been my ideal. — Thomas Bernhard
I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read. — Brian Murphy
Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever. — Julia Ward Howe
They (Medievalists) are soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed. — Isaac Asimov
The Prime Directive is a nice ideal, but have you noticed it never works in practice? — Una McCormack
The ideal is the enemy of the real. — Susan Block
The ideal course of life is not always easy. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. — Philip Yancey
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt. — Joyce Carol Oates
Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth. — Oscar Wilde
The struggle to live up to an "ideal image" of who we should be in order to feel safe misdirects and depletes our energy. — Henna Inam
Marc Allen is a living example and proof that the magical approach can help us create our ideal life - easily. — Pamala Oslie
Play with your ideals and laugh at the limitations of your mundane life. — Miranda J. Barrett
Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be. — Chenjerai Hove
The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts. — Gay Hendricks
Don't allow him/her to have supremacy over you. People like them come and go, so never concede on finding the ideal soul-mate. — Naeem Hartley
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. — Phillips Brooks
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life. — Cassius Jackson Keyser
