People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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.
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.
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.