Life Quotes
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One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said "Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock.
Johnny Depp
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
Seneca the Younger
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Havelock Ellis
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When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, 'I 'll lay my life,' said he, 'somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'
Plutarch
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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
Emily Dickinson
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During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.
Buzz Aldrin
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As far as having someone to talk to on the road, for instance, who's not a guy - it's saved my life many times to have Ann in the same group.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Thomas A. Edison
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Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
Marilyn Monroe
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When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.
Tom Hanks
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I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the impression he left on you. I learned that art can be beautiful and sad at the same time. I learned that if someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back. I learned that how much you want something doesn't determine whether you get it or not, that "no" might not be enough, that life isn't fair, that my parents can't save me, that maybe no one can.
Beth Revis
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Until death it is all life.
Miguel de Cervantes
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To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.
Georgia Harkness
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For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.
Caroline Norton
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If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.
Paul Rust
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Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
Itay Talgam
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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
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Here was life, gently reminding her that she could care again. That her grief was allowed, but so was her joy.
Courtney Milan
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Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.
William Feather
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Life is death in slow motion.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana, but you know, this is a dream life.' You start on this shtick with them and it's fun.
Jim Harrison
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The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
Mahatma Gandhi