Life Quotes
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I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
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In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.
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I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
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If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new Prometheus bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.
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Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
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Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
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Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.
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I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.
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May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.
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Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!
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The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my life. Drawing.
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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.
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Life has not been boring for me.
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Aw:North America|Anything in life is possible and YOU make it happen'! - Jack LaLanne: Live young forever, Robert Kennedy Publishing, Mississauga 2009, P. 15
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We did nothing but breathe life into this team, that's all we did.
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The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.
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I always thought of him [Jack Kennedy] as a prince, with a charmed life. He was a guy who was sick and in horrendous pain all the time - who would say, "I wish I had a few good days."
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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
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I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
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I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
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After all, no matter how long you live, there aren't too many really delicious moments along the way, since most of life is spent eating and sleeping and waiting for something to happen that never does. You can figure it up for yourself, using your own life as the scoreboard. Most of living is waiting to live. And you spend a great deal of time worrying about things that don't matter and about people that don't matter and all this is clear to you when you know the very day you're going to die.
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According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
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I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.
