Life Quotes - Page 564

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.

Life is when awareness hides in the idea of personal experience.

Be content and happy with whatever comes to you.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

All actual life is encounter.

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

We're all human and life is complicated.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, 'This isn't fair.' I said, 'Life isn't fair.' Everybody has their issues. It's how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.