My Life Quotes

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren’t.

I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

A life without glitter is no life at all.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

The strenuous life tastes better

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either.

I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.