The Life Quotes
I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.
I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way.
All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.
I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.
I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive
Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.
By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.
Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it's a path to a better life.
All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. Its a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.
I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.
The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.
There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.
Conversion does not mean a change of outward appearance; rather it requires a change of mind and results in a transformed life.
Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.
We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.
As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.
A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.
A person's life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It's your road.
Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.