The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I understand that Senator Mitchell's report has raised many serious questions. I plan to publicly answer all of those questions at the appropriate time in the appropriate way. I only ask that in the meantime people not rush to judgment.
I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.
It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.
I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.
To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.
It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Life is settled and I'm enjoying it.
Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
The power of the 'Muppets,' and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people's lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately... Privately, hell, I'm with them for life, and I love these people. They're my second family.
My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could.
You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
For me, my No. 1 priority in life was to always have a family. If I had not been able to work anymore, then that would have been it. I would definitely choose family over career. It's really great that my field has allowed me to work and let me do things that a woman does naturally.
Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
You change your life by changing your heart.
There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.
I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.
I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
I grew up in a tiny village on top of a mountain and have been skiing and singing all my life!
I know that balance that I need to have in my life.
Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.
I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.