Life Quotes
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
Will Durant -
I've been striving for attention my whole life. Now I have it.
Hannah Teter
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I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
Pierre Trudeau -
I've always been a man of commitment whether it was academically or professionally. But spiritually I wasn't committed. I was talking the talk and I just wanted to make that commitment. It also made the commitment in other areas of my life stronger.
Avery Johnson -
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Amit Ray -
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh -
God, please help me not be an asshole, is about as common a prayer as I pray in my life.
Nadia Bolz-Weber -
Outside of taking care of a man’s needs, women don’t get much pleasure out of life, anyways.
Charles Willeford
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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
Anita Diamant -
You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.
Molly Ivins -
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
Charles Dickens -
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'
Joseph Brodsky -
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.
Ethan Hawke
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Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
Jean Anouilh -
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
Will Self -
Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics -
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
Seneca the Younger -
My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.
Scott Adams -
My friends have made the story of my life.
Helen Keller
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I'm one of the lucky ones. People get Master's Degree and they say, 'I don't know what I wanted to do,' I knew I always wanted to do. Isn't that nice?
Kaye Ballard -
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
Steve Jobs -
O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.
Ephrem the Syrian -
Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.
Martina McBride