Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want.
A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.
For sure, 2010 was the best year I've ever had. It couldn't have gone any better for me. Even if I just won the Olympic gold medal, that would have made it the best year of my career and the best day of my life, period. Winning the World Cup races and the overall title just topped it off.
We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
Life's to short for chess.
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.
I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
The inspiration for my Vines comes from thinking about funny and relatable experiences from my daily life.
I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'
No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
'Negro' can refer to anyone with dark hair as well as dark skin, and I've been used to the word being used in Spanish in this way all my life.
I think the long interview has an important life.
I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.
Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.