This Life Quotes

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.

My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

The greatest news that I could ever say is that Jesus is Lord and Savior of my life. He is my friend. He is with me wherever I go. I'm so delighted to continue to grow in my relationship to Jesus.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home.

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.

As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.

I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy.

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.

Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.

No life is messier than one in ministry

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything