Life Quotes - Page 199

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

That's sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something...real." Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. "Real love, real friends, real body parts...

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.

Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of the universe-it does not seem likely that the study of living beings will ever uncover general laws applicable outside the biosphere. But if the ultimate aim of the whole of science is indeed, as I believe, to clarify man's relationship to the universe, then biology must be accorded a central position . . .

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro , like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.

I am living proof that no matter how bad life gets, it gets better.

The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

All you can take with you is that which you've given away.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.