Life Quotes
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Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.
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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
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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.
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It’s a funny thing. You go your whole life thinking you’re the protagonist, but really, you’re just backstory.
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If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
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The climate and the chemical properties of the Earth now and throughout its history seem always to have been optimal for life. For this to have happened by chance is as unlikely as to survive unscathed a drive blindfold through rush hour traffic.
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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But how did you freeze a heart, the days and weeks and months that made a life?
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Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.
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I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.
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Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.
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Everything you do in life affects everything else.
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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
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Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for you so that you may know this secret without the pain of discovering it: We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else. Our salvation depends on a simple gesture that is nonetheless the most difficult act we can perform: We must give away the thing we most long for. Not to receive but to give.
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That a plot has no real life of it's own; it exists only in it's precipitates. It cannot be distilled but only crystallized- in which form it is then immutable, whether successful or unsuccesful: once and for all
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Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
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I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.
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In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.
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A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.
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I'm inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.
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'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.
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Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.
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I really love hanging out on the set, and I love the life, and all of that. But I don't think I could stick with this profession if it weren't for those 15 minutes a day when I get to act. That's the part I love. For some strange reason, it's the time that I'm the least self-conscious in my whole life.
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We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.
