The Life Quotes

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.

We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization.

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.

If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

Someone once said, 'God is simple, all else is complex.' The more attuned you become to God, the simpler and more beautiful your life becomes.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections

I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

Wanting the best that life has to offer is so nice. Working for the best that life has to offer is greater.

He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.

Everything you want in life has teeth.

How did her life live itself without her.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.