This Life Quotes

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

‎"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

To surrender is not giving up the struggle, but finding peace within the struggle.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get together some plans. Then set some goals.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

One thing I've learned: you never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

I'm a huge fan of Steve Martin. He's hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.