About Life Quotes

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.

The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal!

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.

I don't know if I thrive in normal life.

To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing of St Aggie's charity. - The owls of St. Aegolius

Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.

Wake up every morning thankful for everything that God gave you, and make your passion your purpose in life.

I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships.

The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.

I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age.

I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life.

It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.

In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

I felt like, what better way for people to understand me by taking the initiative in giving my real name, my name that moms taught me so y'all actually know what's going on in my life and my music.

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.

Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to lead it!

There were [in 21] all those times in my life that I didn't know this was going to happen. I didn't know if anybody was going to care about our music.

My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.

My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She's been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I'm a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.

Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.

Look carefully at the closest associations in your life, for that is the direction you are heading.

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

Zindagi migzara (life goes on)

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.

I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.