The Ideal Life Quotes

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

Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you. — Brian Tracy

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. — Mark Twain

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

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage. — Novalis

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.
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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