My Life Quotes

Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.

The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

I'm not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me.

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.

Is there intelligent life on Earth?

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.

I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

We must have a passion in life.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Enjoy yourself -it's later than you think.

I just simply am not a dater. I think I have been on three official dates in my life. They are like job interviews and I refuse to be romantically employed.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

I am who I am. Life is too beautiful to be sad, to be depressed. The sun comes up every day and it's beautiful.

I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be And so I put this on my life Nobody or nothing will ever come between us And I promise I'll give my life

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.