My Life Quotes

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.

If pizza brings you joy, then by all means, love that pizza like your life depends on it. Because it does.

There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.

You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.

Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.

Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships

Each day of my life I am sowing seeds that one day I will harvest.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.

I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too.

If all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy.

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

Don't let the best you have done so far be the standard for the rest of your life.

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we preach.

If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.

Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

There's so much more to life than what you're feeling now

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.