Quotes About Life

That's my faith, that's the most important thing in my life - believing that I have a purpose here, that I was placed with an intentionality of exactly where I am supposed to be.

I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

Life happens fast. You have to have a Plan B, a backup plan and really figure out a way to have different avenues of income and just avenues of happiness. That is what is really important, being at peace and having that happiness.

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way.

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

Seven daughters was never part of my plan.

If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.

I'm happy to have a job. I play a little, write a little, perform some. It's not like it's an engineered, well-manufactured plan or anything. I just do what I do.

A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life.

You see the hair and the clothes, I look flamboyant. But I'm not the guy with the lake house and the boat. I don't own a home, or a plane. Really, all I want in life is beer in the fridge and a hot rod.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

There's a sadness about love, a melancholy and a sadness about beauty. It's just part of the human experience of living on this planet.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

Man's world is the planet of inexperience.

The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren't trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

As for me, I'm just passin' through this planet.

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.