Quotes about: life

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
– Joseph Campbell
Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
– Terry Goodkind
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
– George Mason
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
– Khalil Gibran
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
– Amber Heard
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
– Maureen Forrester
You've gotta know what death is to know life!
– Jack Kevorkian
You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
– R. Kelly
You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.
– Stockard Channing
You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.
– Colin Farrell
You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
– David Lynch
You're not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people.
– Tony Shalhoub
You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.
– Chris Kyle
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
– Jack Kevorkian
You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.
– Brandi Chastain
You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.
– Kenny Chesney
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
– Henri Bergson
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
– Rick Warren
You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
– Scott Bakula
You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
– Caleb Carr
You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.
– Midge Ure
You think intercourse is a private act it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
– Andrea Dworkin
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
– Brad Garrett
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
– Jim Bouton
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.
– Mike Ditka
You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.
– Kim Kardashian
You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.
– Stephen Collins
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
– Anton Chekhov
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.
– Neil Simon
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
– Michelle Obama
You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.
– Kim Kardashian
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
– Talib Kweli
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
– Wayne Dyer
You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
– David Mamet
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
– Arthur Ashe
You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.
– Glen Hansard
You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.
– Ginnifer Goodwin
You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.
– Mike Epps
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.
– Fred Durst
You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.
– Luke Scott
You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
– Dave Chappelle
You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.
– Shimon Peres
You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.
– Harry Connick, Jr.
You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
– Andre Agassi
You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.
– Heston Blumenthal
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
– Billy Corgan
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
– Bob Dylan
You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
– Jack Nicklaus
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
– Paulo Coelho
You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
– Karl Lagerfeld
You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
– Madeleine Peyroux
You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.
– Elizabeth Edwards
You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.
– Kesha
You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
– Mos Def
You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.
– Carre Otis
You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.
– Sheryl Swoopes
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
– Joni Mitchell
You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
– Charlie Sheen
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
– Taylor Swift
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
– Tony Kushner
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
– Johnny Depp
You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.
– Rod Stewart
You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
– Dan Auerbach
You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us.
– Shailene Woodley
You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.
– Terry Bradshaw
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
– Charles Olson
You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
– Jack LaLanne
You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
– Jeanne Moreau
You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.
– Mehmet Oz
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
– Tracy Kidder
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.
– Evel Knievel
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
– Virginia Woolf
You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.
– John Mayer
You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.
– Roger Stone
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.
– Keith Sweat
You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
– Deepak Chopra
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
– Drew Barrymore
You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.
– Miley Cyrus
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
– Bob Dylan
You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.
– Ashley Greene
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.
– Aubrey O'Day
You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.
– Kirsten Dunst
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
– Mary Schmich
You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
– Zig Ziglar
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
– Francesca Annis
You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
– Fiona Apple
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.
– Salma Hayek
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
– Carol Ann Duffy
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
– Joel Osteen
You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
– Barack Obama
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
– W. Clement Stone
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73 good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
– Ian Mckellen
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
– Elizabeth Edwards
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
– Dorothy Dunnett
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
– Jonathan Sacks
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
– Muhammad Iqbal
Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.
– John Schlesinger