The Life Quotes
Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.
I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.
History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.
If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.
When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Life is short, so don't waste any of it carrying around a load of bitterness. It only sours your life, and the world won't pay any attention anyway.
The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.
Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.
For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.
If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year.... Today should always be our most wonderful day.
Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.