On Life Quotes

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change in your life.

Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history.

The best way to create spectacular results in the most important areas of your life is through daily practice

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

You can name your own salary in this business. I call mine Fred.

Your whole life informs your eye.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.

The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.

I do not have a daily routine, but each morning, I try to spend an hour in bed, visualizing positive outcomes for my life, health, and career.

I want balance in my life.

Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.

Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

I'm just into spirituality. I believe that in a previous life I used to be Shirley MacLaine.

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.

There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.

I came to a terrifying place in my life where I knew I was hopeless. My only hope was to change....or die.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

If you don't find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Love is the water of life, jump into this water.

That is the key to navigating this life - don't take it too seriously. That's when the party begins.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life.

Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it.

I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.

I think what teenagers lack is the belief that they can be unique and extraordinary in life. Make the most of your age because you're not going to be a teenager forever!

Along with the talent, you also need direction.

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

I want people to know you can live a life that is less aggressive and still have success.