This Life Quotes

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough.

Are the people in your life inspiring you or tiring you?

And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.

I never expected that this would be my life.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

I wouldn't marry Giddon to save my life," Katsa said. "Not even to save yours." "Well." Raffin's eyes were full of laughter. "I'd leave that part out.

I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

My friends said, 'You're crazy, enjoy single life.' But that's not for me.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.

One cannot hold power and not use it.

Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.

Even if your body isn't healthy, your soul overcomes that, it doesn't even care, it worships anyway, its joyful anyway. That's what God wants to give you in your life.

You've got to earn respect as life goes on.

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay.

You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.

I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.

There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.

Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.

The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.