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Life Quotes
"No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life."
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"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."
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"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."
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"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant."
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"Life's like a book: What matters is the hook. Be it short or long, just live it strong. Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!"
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"No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!"
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"Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place."
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"I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so."
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"It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It's always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people's eyes, even from a distance."
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"He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it."
Life,
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"The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future."
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"There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings."
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"God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days."
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"A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't."
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"I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company."
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"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
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"Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs."
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"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
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"Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life."
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"A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life."
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"Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer."
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"We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity."
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"Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell."
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"There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat."
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"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."
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"I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way."
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"The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier."
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"We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty."
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"Life doesn't come with an eraser. Experiences leave their mark, for better or for worse. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never been hurt."
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"When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before."
Life,
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"I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people."
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"Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will."
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