People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.
What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.