This Life Quotes

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

You have to find things that are accessible and doable in your busy life and try to fit some time in your schedule to just have time to yourself and be able to recoup and refocus.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

Life is the best teacher.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

It's everyone's destiny to be glooped at some point in their life.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.