On Life Quotes

Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes

We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.

I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue

Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.

I'm pretty irreverent. There is a lot of need to find humour in life. Although I'd never be as disrespectful to laugh at someone's expense.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Sure, fear can protect us from danger—but most of the time it just keeps us from life’s great adventures.

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

I don't know what I could do besides sing but I'm not worried because I figure I've got the rest of my life to find out!

I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me.

A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.

Isn't (life) all about trying?

Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.

Now. Now is the most important time of all of your young lives. And what does now stand for - N-O-W? No Other Way. That's the only time - NOW!

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

Grab life by the balls and squeeze.

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

Dangers await only those who do not react to life.