Life Quotes

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

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.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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.

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.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.