The Life Quotes

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.

The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.