Life Quotes
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Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
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I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. I wasn't brought up in a religious way, but I believe there's something out there that looks after you.
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In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
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The things that matter most in life....Aren't things.
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A supreme pragmatist, Kissinger was never interested in the art of the impossible - and nor, as a biographer, am I. That is why, having initially been invited to write his entire official biography, I eventually decided to devote myself to writing just one year in his life: 1973.
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Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!
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Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
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A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.
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I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
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Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.
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I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'
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No one has success, until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold qualities of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness.
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The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ.
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The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.
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Life is full of horrible mistakes.
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Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.
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I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
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I missed you all my life,” Kylie said. “I didn’t know I missed you, but I know it now. You were supposed to be there.
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For me, politics is about passion. It doesn't matter what you know; it's your actions that count. I meet people who say they're socialists, and that's not what they carry out in their everyday life.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
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If you have removed those people and situations that make your life more drama-like, then you're definitely a success. After all, who doesn't enjoy a quieter home and workplace?
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I think I approach pressure by having discipline and learning to be calm in everyday life. I do this with a daily mindfulness practice and commitment.
