About Life Quotes

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

I've lived a phenomenal life, and there's more life in me, but I'm here, I'm not yesterday, but all those yesterday's brought me here. So I'm very comfortable with that.

One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you , that kinda changed my life.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before

Everything in life is relative.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

Sharia is derived from Arabic, and it means an "oasis." In the desert, man needs the oasis to survive. Sharia is not like any other religion or law, because Sharia is an entire system of life.

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.

God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.

There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.

Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.