This Life Quotes

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

Life entails risk, and you have to draw some lines.

Politics is how you think about life itself.

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not.

The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.

Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

I said to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

Sports is the toy department of life.

You're never too young or too old to make your own kind of mark in your own kind of time. You're never the wrong age to release the power within you to create the life you deserve.

Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.