Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
I realized this is what God has dealt me and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
What is important in life is life and not the result of life.
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death the pain is over. Yeah I guess it is a friend.
These technologies can make life easier can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups get medical information the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools but you know that's how I kept track of what was going on.
Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.
Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car.
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions measurements and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love beauty friendship or decency for example?
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' I was asked over and over again if as the writer I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er below average looks hook up with hottie John Corbett.
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
To succeed in life you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Many kids come out of college they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that life will never make sense.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
I hated every minute of training but I said 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Again you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut destiny life karma whatever. This approach has never let me down and it has made all the difference in my life.
The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut destiny life karma whatever. This approach has never let me down and it has made all the difference in my life.
The way you think the way you behave the way you eat can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
It is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that you know. I'm one of those people.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right we were sleeping wake and waking sleep.
All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
For the past 33 years I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row I know I need to change something.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well but you can't really pet them.
If you want to achieve things in life you've just got to do them and if you're talented and smart you'll succeed.
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home goes to an all-white school and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Time = Life Therefore waste your time and waste of your life or master your time and master your life.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Married or unmarried young or old poet or worker you are still a dreamer and will one time know and feel that your life is but a dream.
Finding some quiet time in your life I think is hugely important.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants one unexpected event crashing into another with no pattern or reason and then you finally reach a point around my age where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy selfish and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
But friendship is precious not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
In everyone's life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life is what keeps me moving forward.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
When you are young and healthy it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well poetry is just the ash.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us one saying "Why not?" and the other "Why bother?"
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good even if nothing else in your life is right you feel like your whole world is complete.
If you don't design your own life plan chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
I think if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27 there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
I've been going through photos of my mother looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Just when I think I have learned the way to live life changes.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
There's only two people in your life you should lie to the police and your girlfriend.
A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.
I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin my body my mind and try to live my life and be happy.
Photography takes an instant out of time altering life by holding it still.
Family life itself that safest most traditional most approved of female choices is not a sanctuary: It is perpetually a dangerous place.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
In everyone's life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made between patriotism which is attachment to a way of life and nationalism which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with but by the time you've got all this great wisdom you don't get to be young anymore.
When a noble life has prepared old age it is not decline that it reveals but the first days of immortality.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
Use your health even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
In life we shall find many men that are great and some that are good but very few men that are both great and good.
I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is what romance is and what a relationship means.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life the children; those who are in the twilight of life the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life the sick the needy and the handicapped.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enough.
It is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Marriage equality changed life for people.
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life choose a sense of humor.
At some point in your life if you're lucky you get to design the way in which things evolve.
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one.
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her I'd also be marrying her former life her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend it does become life and death.
All mankind being all equal and independent no one ought to harm another in his life health liberty or possessions.
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
The great danger for family life in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure comfort and independence lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
I decided very early on just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge and each marked off by some intense experience.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties like all the Royals he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father meeting my husband and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty then another for the next thirty years.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.
If you ask me what I came into this life to do I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
If I had to choose a religion the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend' and now I am happy being single.
The chief condition on which life health and vigor depend on is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties increases its energy and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it friends make life a lot more fun.
To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations of arts and of sciences.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Old age is always wakeful; as if the longer linked with life the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see-it is rather a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Through humor you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter no matter how painful your situation might be you can survive it.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world.
And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything.
You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body trimmed it down firmed it up through discipline exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly that all comes into it.
I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral intellectual and physical education I received from her.
All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted which is privacy and non-harassment.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral intellectual and physical education I received from her.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then and only then can you begin to find inner peace.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood until the time comes for them to depart this life again like children neither tired of living nor aware of death.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book pass an examination and finish with education. The whole of life from the moment you are born to the moment you die is a process of learning.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age when the eager passions of youth are cooled and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows which are at morning and evening so large almost entirely disappear at midday.
In our daily life we encounter people who are angry deceitful intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger distrust greed and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee the small child and the smiling faces. Smell the rain and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential and fight for your dreams.
The chief condition on which life health and vigor depend on is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties increases its energy and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
Throughout life people will make you mad disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered poverty vanished war eliminated.
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life I just spend drinking.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say 'I used everything you gave me'.
Even from a very early age I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.
Throughout my life my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.
Recounting of a life story a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
In both business and personal life I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages cultures scenery food and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start but where you're going. That's family values.
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life comedy.
Open your eyes look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars mansions cars nice clothes beautiful women and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young compassionate with the aged sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Partly because his life ended before the age of 50 Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers and he managed with amazing consistency to alienate most of them.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future act now without delay.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict every experience and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age; I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.
In life single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies they are given imaginary power.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful old age will bring few regrets and life will become a beautiful success.
America doesn't reward people of my age either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really really hard and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
And in my own life in my own small way I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
When it's over I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.
Every creature is better alive than dead men and moose and pine trees and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task go to sleep in peace.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death!
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
We must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
I guess I was a mom so late in life my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
A lot of movies are about life mine are like a slice of cake.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Politicians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself power and glory or happiness.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold service was joy.
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking but all in harmony together.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole.
I'll tell you there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope by a limit imposed from without but falsely identified as lying within.
I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager especially and especially in the society we live in.
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
I mean I'm pretty good in real life but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.
The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids career and I travel and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
I have two kids career and I travel and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However the stages of my life - motherhood middle age etc. - often influence my subject matter.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
There are three constants in life change choice and principles.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty even one's own even more one's own for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
Thank you God for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
When we remember we are all mad the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone I know but mine was plain weird.
The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely aware.
You can map your life through your favorite movies and no two people's maps will be the same.
But when I was a teenager the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.
I have found that if you love life life will love you back.
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life particularly in adolescence.
Look I don't want to wax philosophic but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs you've got to jump around a lot for life is the very opposite of death and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully or you're not alive.
O human beauty what a dream art thou that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life as not to receive new information from age and experience.
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination Imagination is the workshop of your mind capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Living in an age of advertisement we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day but it changes and withers at a touch.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
And by the way everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it dream of it live on that idea. Let the brain muscles nerves every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
We cannot banish dangers but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really really hard and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless life stifles and dies.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.