Life Quotes
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Life on this island is slim pickings if you have ambition.
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The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to stop it. I grew up living with my Mum, brother and Nana (my mum's mum), so it felt like I lost a parent rather than a grandparent. It makes you realise the fragility of life.
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And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.
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Now that I've moved to Mumbai, I should perhaps get a horse. It'll be a nice escape from my everyday life.
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With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
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Everything in life is relative.
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To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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No one had ever educated me on mental health. I really didn't understand why I would be feeling high on life, and everything was brilliant, and then suddenly I would be crashing into a deep hole.
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If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.
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It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves. Don't take life too seriously.
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When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.
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Life's too short to be working with divas.
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Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you've invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative life into this narrative that you have some stake in how it ends.
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A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.
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The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
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I love tennis. I've played it my whole life. Loved it since the age of three. I had an injury, so from the age of 13 to 24 I didn't play much. Then when I moved out to L.A., there were so many tennis courts that I rekindled the love.
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.
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The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.
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You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.
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If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.
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My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.
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I think most of my life I have not felt recognized.
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I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
