Life Quotes

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

Sex is the gateway to life.

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

Life does not owe me a shred.

I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life.

Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.

I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

I realize that you have to show up for your life.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.

I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'

Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis.

You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.