Life Quotes
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The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.
Harry Dean Stanton
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Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
William Weld
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
Hermann Hesse
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles de Lint
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Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.
Angelina Jolie
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I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.
Marlon Brando
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Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.
Zach Braff
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A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.
Aimee Mullins
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Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity.
Alonzo King
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Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.
Oprah Winfrey
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I don't generally exercise that much. I exercised a great deal in my life - at times. In periods.
John Gemberling
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And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.
Nicholas Sparks
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The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.
George A. Romero
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
Thomas Hobbes
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One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!
E. M. Forster
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I like to keep my private life private for the most part.
Bode Miller
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In the funeral home, I never heard laughter like that in my life. The audience was laughing on the screen, and we were laughing in the home.
Carl Reiner
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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.
Sigmund Freud
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Change isn't easy, Micky. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think. Changing the way you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, sweetie. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.
Dean Koontz
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
Lao Tzu
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Life is ever lord of DeathAnd Love can never lose its own.
John Greenleaf Whittier