About Life Quotes

I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.

Love is life believing in itself

Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat.

Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music.

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

History is the teacher of life

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

The life of the soul is incalculable.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.

Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.

If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.

If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.

Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide.

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story.

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

Any day alive in this world is a charmed life.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.

I learned I could live more than one life in a lifetime.

If it is in the highest good for all life everywhere.

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.