This Life Quotes

One thing is clear: My life is completely different than it was before the kidnapping.

Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the hand of God, with a life that, though manifold, is one, and, though complex, is harmonious.

You have to look at things that happened in your life and ask why. It comes around.

I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.

If you're only happy when the sun is out, you're missing half of your life.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.

That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself.

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?

Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity.

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.

One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant.

And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that justifies. But faith that justifies can never be alone.

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

Good ball players make good citizens.

Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.

As we enter into exquisite awareness of the life that want to live as us, we learn to love deeply. - We claim our passion.

Life's been nothing but paperwork.

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

I spend my life imagining you, it is not time to be a coward.

I really felt that I had accomplished my goals in life. My first passion has always been to be a restaurateur, a good husband and father, and to provide for my family.

On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

Life for my child is simple, and is good.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.

I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life.

By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life.

Being thankful and saying thanks are two habits of people who've discovered what it means to succeed in life.

Cultivate the attitude of gratitude. The attitude of gratitude is when you are grateful for every breath of life.

You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.

What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful.

The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.

The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.