This Life Quotes

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

Maybe people [in Hollywood] wear really nice clothes, and they drive really nice cars, but that doesn't make me comfortable. And if I'm not comfortable, it won't be a part of my life.

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.

I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

What’s hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is.

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

I don’t really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don’t know what I would do without it.

It was the best night of my life, getting to dance on stage with Madonna!

There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.

For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .

Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

Life is a race; desire the goal.

When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

I guarantee you there is someone in your life that deserves more appreciation. Who is it? Find that person and let them know!

I don't want to get away with murder! I'd have to live with that for the rest of my life. I would never want to live with killing somebody.

I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but "reporting" on my own life became emotionally exhausting.