Life Quotes
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I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.
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People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.
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A woman's whole life is spent making chicken curry while her husband works. Then, any time he likes, he can kick her out.
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I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
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Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had before. I think we struggle in life. Even people of faith struggle when things don't work out quite the way we think they should.
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The way you live your life depends on you.
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I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.
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Oprah's such a wonderful spirit; she's been given a lot of gifts in her life, and she gives them back.
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Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.
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All of my life, in every season, You are still God. I have a reason to sing, I have a reason to worship. “Desert Song,” Hillsong...
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Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
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She Eleanor Roosevelt wants a life of her own. Her grandmother could have been a painter. Her grandmother could have done so much more than she did with her life. And Eleanor Roosevelt decides she is going to do everything possible with her life. She's going to live a full life.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
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I fled my home town and did odd jobs, including things like re-designing old furniture, before I became an actor. Having said that, I don't think the story of my life is in any way remarkable. What is remarkable is how acting opportunities have come my way.
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Married life suits me.
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I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.
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My body back at the Playboy mansion was the most important thing in life back then because we were in the spotlight every minute. We had to look good. The girls who gained the weight, those were the girls who didn't get the work.
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The past, she knew, is inviolable, one of the few things in life that cannot be marred by present foolishness, and in it the present may find its peace.
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No matter our age, circumstances, or abilities, each one of us can create something remarkable of his life.
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God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments.
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The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.
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Though a skilled mathematician, Alfred Marshall used mathematics sparingly. He saw that excessive reliance on this instrument might lead us astray in pursuit of intellectual toys, imaginary problems not conforming to the conditions of real life: and further, might distort our sense of proportion by causing us to neglect factors that could not easily be worked up in the mathematical machine.
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The more you learn, the more you need to learn. That's what life is.
