Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Life goes on and life is full of setbacks. You have to fight, that’s all.
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: ‘Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.’
Life is tough, and things don’t always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.
There’s only two people in your life you should lie to… the police and your girlfriend.
The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It’s all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.
Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it’s really easy to look at someone else’s life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. ‘Black Rain’ was very much about choices. The message – we are what we chose to be.
When you start recognising that you’re having fun, life can be delightful.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.
Whatever life throws at me I’ll take it and be grateful for it as well.
You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me.
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.
It’s important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don’t. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
To be exceptional you have to be alone, that’s the life of a warrior.
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that.
Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes.
It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.
I’m taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.
I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?
Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.
I’ve never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
No matter what job or industry you’re in, life is hard, but we’re all going through a difficult time and the best thing we can do is pick each other up and move on together.
The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.