We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
I tried snowboarding at 14, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I snowboarded every day off I had, every weekend I had off of school, every holiday we had off from school, and it became a huge part of my life, not just what I love to do, but really just kind of who I was.
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.
Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.
Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.
Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.
I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.
Singing and acting suit me. I made a vow to myself to do everything that I can do with this life that I have, and I have to find the time to do this. Sometimes I need to be an actress. Sometimes I don't need to be Jill. However, everyone is always looking for the Jill in everything.
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.
I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.
I've had the most wonderful life.
I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
Life is but thought.
Dressing is a way of life.
I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.
Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
Among identical twins who have the exact same genes, one may die early of a heart attack and the other may live a long, healthy life - depending on their lifestyle and what they eat.
Those who see beauty almost too intensely can easily look mad to those who are functioning within the confines of so-called normal life.
I think I would want to be a therapist or sociologist. I love talking to people about their relationships and life problems, understanding where it comes from, and giving insight that's helpful. Also, it would be fun to just marry rich and vacation a lot. That's my real second choice.