This Life Quotes

I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it'll be okay.

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.

Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

How vast a memory has Love!

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.

The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

I don't feel threatened. You can live your life being scared of losing someone and, at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you and that's it.

So I'm very grateful for everything that has happened in my life.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

I'm a firm believer in if you work hard you should play hard. So I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity.

I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.

I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.

Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

You gotta just laugh at yourself and let it go and not take things too seriously because life is too short.

I'll play for Rangers as long as I can, then spend the rest of my life being depressed

The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think Ive been lucky to do that.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.

True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.

Life is all about balance: sprinting hard and fast, breathing deep and slow. Working out with my coaches, playing with my kids. Eating whole foods for fuel, enjoying a glass of wine with friends.

We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life.