This Life Quotes
Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.
There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.
I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.
I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country.
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.
The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.
I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.
Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.
There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can't be a diet. You have to change your life.
I'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.
Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.
My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.
I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.
The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
In person, my father is so friendly, so considerate, so funny, and so real. I have admired my father all of my life, and I love him with all my heart.
I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.
My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
Even today, you get criticized if you're staying at home, because you're not doing enough with your life, but you get criticized for being a career woman because you're not raising your kids.
Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.
It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.
Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.
If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.
Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.
A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.
Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.
