Life Quotes
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It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them.
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I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, "I've had it!" I know I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life. I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less that I can be.
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I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
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It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.
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The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.
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'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life.
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One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.
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So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.
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If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.
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With my son, I work very hard to keep him away from the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life as possible.
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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.
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Most of the time, we respond to life without taking a moment.
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For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.
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Don't cross the river if you can't swim the tide. Don't try denyin' livin' on the other side. All your life You were on your own.
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The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
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Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.
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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
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If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?
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Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
