Quotes about: life

I try to practice with my life.
– Herbie Hancock
I'm aiming that towards people, towards humanity, not even just musicians. Because this is about life, not about musicians.
– Herbie Hancock
I'm looking at other sources for inspiration; feelings and developments that are happening in human life itself.
– Herbie Hancock
I'm looking less to musical sources for inspiration and broadening my scope beyond the entertainment field and looking more into life itself. Life today.
– Herbie Hancock
I've started something called the Rhythm of Life Foundation to encourage the technological community to develop ideas and software that directly effect the advancement of humanity.
– Herbie Hancock
Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
– Herbie Hancock
So to answer your question more directly, I think it's very important, in order not to have a boring life, to continue to have a sense of exploration, and the courage to take risks, in order to utilize and expand your sense of creativity.
– Herbie Hancock
There's also an organization called the Rhythm of Life Organization or ROLO, which was put together to further the use of technology in a more humanitarian way, using technology to be a part of a tool set directed toward social issues and human issues, the real kind of problems people face every day.
– Herbie Hancock
When I discovered Buddhism, I realized that Buddhism agrees with that. Buddhism adds something, too, which is that your life also never begins. It's eternal.
– Herbie Hancock
When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
– Herbie Hancock
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
– Herbie Hancock
Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
– Learned Hand
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
– Learned Hand
My vote is one of the most unimportant acts of my life; if I were to acquaint myself with the matters on which it ought really to depend, if I were to try to get a judgment on which I was willing to risk affairs of even the smallest moment, I should be doing nothing else, and that seems a fatuous conclusion to a fatuous undertaking.
– Learned Hand
Yet with all the attraction that it has, our youth cannot long remain without feeling the narrowness of simply a classification of the world. Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
– Learned Hand
I am in absolutely the best shape of my life and ready to go. I am not nervous at all. Physically and mentally, I have never felt better.
– Tonya Harding
Pessimism... is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
– Thomas Hardy
How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.
– Franco Harris
I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.
– Jean Harris
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.
– Sydney J. Harris
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?
– Sydney J. Harris
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
– Sydney J. Harris
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
– Sydney J. Harris
Sex is the gateway to life.
– Frank Harris
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
– Richard Harris
As footsteps tread a path of grace that lights the way ahead, the smile upon your Saintly face across my life is spread.
– Brian Harris
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals - and critics of the Women's Movement.
– Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.
– George Harrison
I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff. It's good that this has life again with the youth.
– George Harrison
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
– George Harrison
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
– Jane Harrison
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
– Harry Harrison
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
– B. H. Liddell Hart
Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.
– Mickey Hart
Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.
– Josh Hartnett
I'm looking forward to finding someone in life that I can be truly happy with and relate to on all levels - someone I can bounce my stuff off. Right now, though, I'm not searching for that. I couldn't possibly handle it at this point. But I still like knowing it will be out there sometime later.
– Josh Hartnett
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
– Orrin Hatch
The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
– Orrin Hatch
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
– Vaclav Havel
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
– Vaclav Havel
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
– Vaclav Havel
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
– Vaclav Havel
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life is made up of marble and mud.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Friends are the sunshine of life.
– John Hay
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
– S. I. Hayakawa
An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.
– Helen Hayes
An actress's life is so transitory - suddenly you're a building.
– Helen Hayes
Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.
– Helen Hayes
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
– Helen Hayes
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
– Helen Hayes
Good temper is an estate for life.
– William Hazlitt
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
– William Hazlitt
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
– William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
– William Hazlitt
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
– William Hazlitt
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
– William Hazlitt
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive.
– William Hazlitt
Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledged - desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend.
– Carolyn Heilbrun
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
– Robert A. Heinlein
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
– Robert A. Heinlein
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
– Sir Arthur Helps
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
– Ernest Hemingway
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
– Ernest Hemingway
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
– Ernest Hemingway
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
– Ernest Hemingway
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are simple things, and because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
– Ernest Hemingway
I love the gay community. Naturally having been in this business since I was 17, I came into contact with gay people very young in my life. To me they were always the most talented, the kindest, they have the most wicked senses of humor - I always felt comfortable. I was never threatened, ever, and I just embraced them and loved them.
– Florence Henderson
My goal has always been to be like a female George Burns. Having had the opportunity to work with him so many times, especially at the end of his life, I felt so inspired by him all the time. I totally agreed with him. We would talk about how lucky we were to find something that we loved when we were kids and to just grow more in love with it as time goes on.
– Florence Henderson
My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.
– Florence Henderson
It's not my ideal place. Los Angeles is so much about Hollywood and the business is so much a part of your life. There's a different level of ego here and I don't really want that to become my daily concern. It's not a lifestyle I really want. I am still really sceptical about the whole thing and trying to remain realistic. I don't really go to any of the parties. It's not really my scene.
– Martin Henderson
On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
– Arthur Henderson
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
– Jimi Hendrix
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
– Jimi Hendrix
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
– Jimi Hendrix
Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
– Brad Henry
Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
– Matthew Henry
It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
– Katharine Hepburn
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
– Katharine Hepburn
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
– Katharine Hepburn
Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you then; you were safe.
– Katharine Hepburn
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
– George Herbert
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
– George Herbert
I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.
– Woody Herman
Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
– Robert Herrick
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
– Alexander Herzen
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
– Alexander Herzen
Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.
– Werner Herzog
The greatest problem is not how to continue but how to exalt our existence. The call for a life beyond the grave is presumptuous, if there is no cry for eternal life prior for our deacending to the grave. Eternity is not perpetual future but perpetual presence. He has planted in us the seed of eternal life. The world to come is not only a hereafter but also a herenow.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.
– Jennifer Love Hewitt
I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?
– Jennifer Love Hewitt
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.
– Napoleon Hill
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
– Napoleon Hill
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
– Napoleon Hill
I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.
– Henry Hill
There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
– Damon Hill
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
– Paris Hilton
Life is short, the art long.
– Hippocrates
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
– Hippocrates