Life Quotes - Page 197

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you're blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.'

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.

The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.