This Life Quotes

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

I think when you are named Noah, you are destined for a certain way of life.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

My life really has been one long extravaganza.

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.

I give thanks every day for each new day that the Lord allows me to live and enjoy life to the fullest.

I've got a different perception now and it's really enjoyable to be at this point in your life and be able to watch this.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Life--you have to live it as it comes.

I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

Make sure you pay attention to what's right with your life, not just what's wrong.

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.

Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

Life is tough; thank God there's design.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring.

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.

Don't feel sorry because my life is over. Be happy that it happened.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.

Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

When there is a storm in your life, it is not the time to build. No creature on earth tries to build during a storm. Conserve your energy until the storm passes.

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

Life is too short to waste on things that don't matter.

The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.