About Life Quotes

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all.

Don't get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that's where some people get into trouble. Acting becomes their life. I don't want that.

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.

In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.

When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.

You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.

Between the creative, open and spontaneous approach to life, and the highly disciplined, pragmatic approach, there's a doorway, if you can find it - and it leads to immortality.

You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.

There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.

You must make bold experiments in life!

How much weight you can carry in your mind will determine how far you can go in life!

Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It's going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.

I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.

Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it.

A psycho, they called me. They were right. They were wrong. They couldn't come close to my fire. They couldn't touch my heart.

Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.

I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.

I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I’d be happy.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn’t miss for the world.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

I'm not going to talk about my private life with a total stranger, unless I feel like I need to. Why would I? I don't.

There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage.

I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

Have to and get to?both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.