Quotes on Life

You get a little picture that reflects the whole. You can get readers interested in the life of one guy, and he can reflect the whole life around him. And it's a better picture than the politicians give you.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really is. We're not told that life is joy and wonder and magic and even rapture, if you can get involved enough. We're not told that life is also pain, misery, despair, unhappiness, and tears. I don't know about you, but I don't want to miss any of it. I want to embrace life, and I want to find out what it's all about. I wouldn't want to go through life without knowing what it is to cry.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

Australia can no longer afford to go down the path of confrontation and fragmentation which has embittered and disfigured so many aspects of the national life.

I wanted to write a show about an estate that wasn't sad or morbid, like a lot of shows portray working class life to be.

The Warrior of the light knows that when somebody wants something, the whole Universe conspires in their favor.

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.