Life Quotes

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.

I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

The arts are a major life nourishment.

Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

I mean, I couldn't ask for a better life, man.

I couldn't ask for a better life.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Loud is a way of life.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.

Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

I've been doing African dance all my life.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

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.

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

Life is wasted on the living.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.