Quotes About Life

I guess if you take away the pain in life it means having no beauty to hope for.

The limbic system is essentially devoted to moving us rapidly toward or away from things in life that are relevant to our survival.

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

I'm going to wake up. I'm

It was one of those rare moments where life delivers on the promises offered by Hollywood... I just stood there and watched her disappear like the pathetic, 'romantic' coward I was (and still am, I guess)... In a way, it was a perfect moment -- everything I had been waiting for... People like me probably don't want anything to actually happen to them anyway...

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.

He bid me [Robinson Crusoe] observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.

It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.

What good would it have done me in the last hour of my life to know that though our great nation and the United States were in complete ruins, the national honor of the Soviet Union was intact?

It was the conclusion that the secret to living a long life had nothing to do with happiness, a lack of stress, or avoiding hard work. They found that the secret was living conscientiously and using forethought, planning, and perseverance in all aspects of one's life. Conscientiousness was the number-one predictor of longevity. Friedman offers a number of reasons

Happiness comes from moving your life forward toward your life goals with meaning and purpose, based on your values, despite whatever obstacles are in your way. A happy life doesn't focus on the past with regret or look to the future with fear.

happiness is about 40 percent genetic (you inherit it from your ancestors), 10 percent your situation in life or what happens to you, and 50 percent habits and mindset.

A 27-year study concluded that living with purpose and meaning is the key to happiness and longevity.

All the earth is a grave, and nought escapes it; nothing is so perfect that it does not fall and disappear. The rivers, brooks, fountains and waters flow on, and never return to their joyous beginnings; they hasten on to the vast realms of Tlaloc, and the wider they spread between their marges the more rapidly do they mould their own sepulchral urns. That which was yesterday is not to-day; and let not that which is to-day trust to live to-morrow.

This is when I learned that mistakes are interesting and began planning a life that contained several of them.

human beings come into the world with a passion for control, they go out of the world the same way

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. HORACE WALPOLE

It's a funny thing about life, I think we're born square and we die round

Your physical well being and thus your mental state, is God-given responsibility to you. Tending to them and get a clear sense of what your life is about before ashes and dust and you'll be having inner peace with your life