The Life Quotes

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

At some point in life you have to face your fears.

Success is not for the weak and uncommitted... Sometimes it's gonna hurt!

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.

The one seeking to demonstrate the power of spiritual realization in everyday affairs should believe in Divine guidance... and that everything in life is controlled by love, harmony, and peace.

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

Just be happy, and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the people that make you happy.

In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

Being a warrior doesn't mean necessarily you need to win and succeed. It's just a spiritual condition of living a worthwhile life.

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

I’ve had a great life, and it all happened because I didn’t plan any of it.

Life's too short to wear high heels.

We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.

All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.

To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.