Life Quotes
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
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People used to call me for donations, and I couldn't relate to that because I have spent most of my life trying to support myself.
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Fortunately, though she was hungry, she didn't mind missing a meal. Life was full of meals. They took up an enormous proportion of one's time.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
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You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.
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Human life is too difficult for people.
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Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
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You can't describe love, Kathie, and you can't define it. Only it goes with you all your life. I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty...and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes...I think that is what love is to a woman...a lantern in her hand.
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If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
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To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury, nor should it be the sole possession of a privileged few. We are all created b'tzelem elohim - in the image of God - and this makes each human life as precious as the next. By 'pricing out' a portion of this country's population from health care coverage, we mock the image of God and destroy the vessels of God's work.
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When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
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I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.
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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
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My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.
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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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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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Of taking what life gave her, she should take what she wanted from life.
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A man can't understand how a woman feels--how she can offer up her entire life to him. The man thinks she's bringing him a burden. He doesn't understand that she's trying to give him a gift.
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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
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When people put effort in life, it's more beautiful. But it doesn't come naturally to me.