My Life Quotes

I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.

Music creates order out of chaos.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.

Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you?

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other humans... In its deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of the Creator in us.

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

Wake up, life does get tough. No need to stress, holds you back too much.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

If you do what is easy, your life will be hard

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.

Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.

The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

Life's too short. Start with Dessert!

Life is too short to worry about anything

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.