This Life Quotes

Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

The whole point to life-that you have to experience yourself, but then when you do you realize that you've learned so much from the bad things that sometimes they're better than the good things.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

I love hitting aces. It's not easy, but it makes your life a lot easier.

Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!

As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

My main hope for my children would be that whatever profession or calling they choose in life, that they pursue it with passion.

I don't think I would want my children to enter into my profession. There's a lot of stress and so much competition. There are easier things you can do with your life.

I'm happy. I have a man who makes me happy. And a family, which is what I most wanted in life.

He nodded. "And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.

If you're not getting any motivation from anyone around you in life and you feel alone, rely on yourself and your own ability.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you.

As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.

When you live life with him or without him, that is when he will accept and value you for who you are.

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.

Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.

I've found that people with flexible ears are the least rigid in life. Best way to find yourself a perfect partner may be as easy as squeezing their ears.

I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

The one thing I like about the religion is, I'm never at a loss to do something. No matter what happens in my life, there is something for me to do so I don't feel as though I have lost control.

If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.

Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life.

If you tiptoe into cold water, you're missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst.

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

If I hadn’t left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn’t have met my husband and I wouldn’t have had the children that I’ve had. Life is interesting like that.

You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate.

You know what, life is full of temptations

I am like the lover of Roland Barthes "who's always running in his head". I'm always searching, and "eating" everything from my life, in order to put it in my dresses!

I think my music has a big message, and I think when people really get into it, it does help their life sometimes. It inspires me; it's my favorite part about my job.

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.