Life Quotes
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I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.
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I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.
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For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy.
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Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.
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When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.
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I'm really not trying to do everything that comes to mind because that's when it can be dangerous. For instance, I believe as much as possible, how your camera moves and flies around should be limited to the physics of how you could do it in real life.
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The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.
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The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
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Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.
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I've been on hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of auditions in my life, so it's not unusual that I went in for 'Glee.' What was unusual is that it was a week, exactly, after I had given birth.
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My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
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Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
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Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
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There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
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I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
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I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
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The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are already succeeding.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.
