This Life Quotes

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Old age is the verdict of life.

In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.