Life Quotes

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

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.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Painting completed my life.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

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.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

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.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

Children make your life important.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

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.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.