Life Quotes
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The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.
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Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
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I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.
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Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.
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Life is short and art is long.
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That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.
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While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.
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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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The clubs usually enforce no filming of performances pretty well. I want to know that what I'm doing is in the here and now and it's mine. I absolutely want control over my performances. And it is actually scary to see someone filming you without permission. Like Big Brother is watching. All these cameras don't make up for a life that isn't well-lived! I agree that people don't live in the moment, they instead live to make a name for themselves as "people who are living exciting lives and at great events".
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What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
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We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
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I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.
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You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.
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I love that moment when I look back at a challenge in my life and realize I'm now at peace with it.
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There's nothing I need from anyone except love and respect, and anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life.
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Prepare your mind to recieve the best that life has to offer.
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The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
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The purpose of your life is Joy.
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I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.
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The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.
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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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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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Spirit and body, when joined together, become a living soul of supernal worth.