This Life Quotes

I can't maintain the body of a 16-year-old anymore. That's just a really boring life to me. You really just cannot do anything fun, ever.

For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out how we can reverse the process.

Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

Life is greater than you have ever known it.

As a collector, you will discover that surrounding yourself with art can enrich not only your visual experiences, but instill a sense of vitality to your life and uplift your soul.

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

O, if so much beauty doth reveal Itself in every vein of life and nature, How beautiful must be the Source itself, The Ever Bright One.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows.

There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right.

Life is a series of delicious moments.

The truth is, the Universe will always take care of you.

Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.

I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

The great doing of little things, makes the great life.

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

I talk about therapy a lot because I love therapy. It has just enriched my life.

The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

The Bible is the statute-book of God's Kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one.