I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn – exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Life is too short to do the things you don’t love doing.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Life is all about having a good time.
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
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.
Enjoy life… that’s what we’re here for.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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.
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Life loves the liver of it.
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
We pass through this world but once.
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
Life is full of ups and downs. One needs to stay positive in life, no matter what.
I try to work and enjoy life, and that’s about all.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Once your mind and body is healthy, it creates a freedom that helps you enjoy life.
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
What you put into life is what you get out of it.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.
The goal of all life is death.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it’s how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we’re meant to be on.
Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
