Quotes about: life

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
– Jon Fishman
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
– John Thorn
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
– Khalil Gibran
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
– Jesus Christ
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
– Bob Barr
For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
– Edward Kennedy
For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.
– Johnny Depp
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
– Vince Lombardi
Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.
– Giada De Laurentiis
Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.
– Tom Vilsack
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
– Barack Obama
Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
– Doug Coupland
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
– Oksana Baiul
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.
– Angelina Jolie
Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
– David Hunt
Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
– Mariel Hemingway
Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.
– Jeff Foxworthy
Find patience in the breath of life.
– Ryunosuke Satoro
Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
– Kevin Costner
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
– George Saunders
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
– Felix Adler
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
– John Henry Newman
Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.
– Jeremy Renner
Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
– Mike Huckabee
Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.
– Corey Feldman
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
– Mindy Kaling
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
– Olivia De Havilland
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.
– Robert Cormier
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
– Barbara Bush
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
– Dan Millman
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
– Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
– George Sand
Failure's a natural part of life.
– John Malkovich
Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
– Matt Emmons
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
– Daniel Kahneman
Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
– Navjot Singh Sidhu
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all this, too, shall pass.
– Ann Landers
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
– Ray Comfort
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
– Mel Brooks
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
– Andre Breton
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
– Donna Tartt
Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
– Wallace Stevens
Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.
– Patsy Kensit
Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.
– Mariska Hargitay
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
– Michael Jackson
Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.
– Paul Feig
Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
– Sally Kirkland
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
– Aleksa Palladino
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
– Tyler Perry
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
– Donald Knuth
Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!
– Jaime Hernandez
Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.
– Karl Radek
Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
– Merrill Markoe
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
– Thomas Merton
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
– Meir Kahane
Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.
– Peter Guber
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
– Miguel Angel Ruiz
Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.
– Ricky Martin
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
– Thomas Carlyle
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.
– John Millington Synge
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.
– Gus Van Sant
Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.
– Georgia Jagger
Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
– The Dalai Lama
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.
– Phil Ochs
Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.
– Jane Seymour
Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.
– Clara Bow
Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.
– Robert Mondavi
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
– William Hazlitt
Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?
– Katherine Heigl
Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
– Valentino Garavani
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
– Carl Jung
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
– Lascelles Abercrombie
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.
– Barry Commoner
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.
– Jon Meacham
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
– E. M. Forster
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
– E. Franklin Frazier
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
– Havelock Ellis
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
– Solomon Ortiz
Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.
– Bev Perdue
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
– Vivienne Westwood
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
– Elsa Schiaparelli
Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
– Gabrielle Reece
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
– Voltaire
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
– Pierre Corneille
Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
– Jason Sudeikis
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.
– Sebastian Vettel
Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
– Vikram Chatwal
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
– Candice Bergen
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
– Benjamin Franklin
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
– Michael Morpurgo
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
– George Sand
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.
– Michael Savage
Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.
– Bo Jackson
Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.
– Boris Kodjoe
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
– Mark Hyman
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
– Louis E. Boone
Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
– Floyd Mayweather, Jr.