My Life Quotes

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

Life continually teaches. We eventually catch on.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.

Your rewards, all the years of your life, will be in precise proportion to your service. You are here to serve others, just as they serve you.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

Spice is life. It depends upon what you like... have fun with it. Yes, food is serious, but you should have fun with it.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love.

I want to try to keep my life the same.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

I just got the will to win at life.

Is the cinema more important than life?

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

A life without music is an error.

We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed.

She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.