My Life Quotes

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Of all things there remains to me only honor and life which is safe.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.

If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.

My basic life philosophy is Harry Potter

Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.

More love, more power, more of You in my life. I will worship You with all of my heart, I will worship You with all of my mind, I will worship You with all of my strength, for You are my Lord.

To touch is to give life.

I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life. This man has lived through a struggle that few nations have known.

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind.

All my life, I've dreamed in gold.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.

I know life is hard but we can always find hope in music and wash away our tears

Don't say I gotta do anything in life. There is nothing you gotta do. But I want to.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.

When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

Life's too short to bullshit.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

A writer must say yes to life.

You have to treat yourself. Life is too short to deprive yourself of things.

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".

The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it They will go for you and with you

Medicine has its limitations, Life Force has none.

Every man is the author of his own life.

I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.