top of page

Life Quotes

GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists."
Donald Johanson
"This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."
Les Brown
"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children."
Bruce Springsteen
"I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone."
Benoit Mandelbrot
"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough."
Gregory Harrison
"I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
William Wordsworth
"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going."
Jena Malone
"There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years."
Ron White
"There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it."
William Hurt
"It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it."
Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men."
Nicolas de Chamfort
"There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life."
Rosanne Cash
"Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside."
Alan Cohen
"You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life."
Robert Redford
"I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
J. B. Priestley
"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers."
Jonathan Franzen
"I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others."
Armstrong Williams
"My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now."
Tracey Emin
"My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."
Simone de Beauvoir
"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"In your love, I dive,to find the beauty of life."
Debasish Mridha
"In your love, I dive,to find the beauty of life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore."
Sterling Hayden
"Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life."
Felix Bloch
"It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way."
Kim Novak
"For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad."
Dakota Fanning
"No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life."
Neil Diamond
"Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
Eugene O'Neill
"Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House."
Evan Sayet
"Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me."
Helen Keller
"It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Globalization is a fact of economic life."
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
"Globalization is a fact of economic life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure."
Marlee Matlin
"The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears."
Walt Whitman
"I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."
Morris West
"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all."
Lucretius
"And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem."
Philip Seymour Hoffman
"There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing."
Sonny Rollins
"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
Will Smith
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them."
Ernestine L. Rose
"I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity."
Vin Diesel
"A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever."
Anatole France
"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life."
Lauren Ambrose
"Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity."
William Barclay
"The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going."
George MacDonald
"It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."
Miguel de Unamuno
"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
Bill Watterson
"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."
Charles de Montesquieu
"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out."
Sandra Cisneros
"And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
bottom of page