Quotes About Life

The question shouldn't be Am I happy? but rather, Does my life have meaning? And yes, my life has meaning. I've created two children, and loving them, caring for them, and helping prepare them for life gives my life purpose.

fine tailoring couldn't cloak the primitive danger of the desert. The desert was about life. Death. Survival. And she saw the desert in his eyes, dark gold like the Saharan sand.

To change the world for the better, you must begin by changing your own life. There is no other way.

First of all, a soul is not something that you have. It is what you are.

True religion is not repressive, as life itself is not.

You cannot understand what makes things live when you must first rob their life. And so when man learned to categorize, number and dissect nature, he lost its living quality and no longer felt a part of it.

Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.

You want to save the world." "What's wrong with that?" He sighed in exasperation. "You are too young to understand. People get by." "I don't want to get by. I want to know my life's been useful.

If you cannot be happy here, at least you will be alive and safe. And that's important to me, Stephen. Somebody told me once he'd do anything to keep me safe, because he didn't want to be alone in the universe. Well, my precious, priceless Partner, neither do I.

I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.

It's really not a question of how long you have on this earth; it's about what you do with it.

Sister was inspired by Asia Booth Clarke's personal memoirs. Author, historical scholar and storyteller Jane Singer has masterfully imagined the family dynamics and intimate dilemmas that led to one of America's most fateful crimes and left a sister's life in shambles. JANE SINGER is a Civil War scholar and nonfiction author ("The Confederate

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

Mother Land provides evidence that growth in self-understanding can be achieved at a late stage of life -- Theroux is in his seventies -- evidence that the story is not over yet and that new insight and change can take place until the end.

Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.