This Life Quotes

"I'm Black". I think that's the best song I ever made in my whole life.

Life without chocolate is just an existence

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

Too many of us seem to be searching for something 'out there' to make our lives complete. What we are all really searching for is the divine essence that lives within.

By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.

Bringing a spiritual dimension into all that we do is essential for ending the struggle and dancing with life. Our body and our minds can take us only so far, our spirit can lead us all the way Home.

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.

Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.

Love is the best part of life

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us.

There were thousands of women in New York alone who could replace me in his life, but there was only one Gideon Cross.

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.

Everything in life is writable.

You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.

I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.

It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.

And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.

I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.

The Atonement is our singular hope for a meaningful life.

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope.

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.