Life Quotes
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Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.
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I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff, so now I just want things to feel real and authentic.
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You should only be in a relationship if it adds to your life.
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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I see my own mother now, as clearly as I had the day she watched me leave. She should have fought for me, protected me with her life.
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Sometimes in your everyday life, you should say the right thing. But the wrong thing is funnier.
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In art the Chinese aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable.
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As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.
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World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.
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I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.
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In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.
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Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?
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Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.
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I've been pretty broke my entire life. I'm not going to live that same life, but I'm going to keep those same principles.
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I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.
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I was raised in a beautiful Black two-parent family that has given me amazing morals to go out to make a better life for myself and others. That is who I truly am. And this show allows me to display the true essence of who I am and why I'm in this business.
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There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.
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I don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life.
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Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys are nought to me. Weep not, but think that I have past Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. Have anchored safe and rest at last Where tears and mouring can not come. 'Tis I should weep to leave thee here On that dark ocean sailing drear With storms around and fears before And no kind light to point the shore. But long or short though life may be 'Tis nothing to eternity. We part below to meet on high Where blissful ages never die.
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Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.
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The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.
