I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.
Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
My first child, I think I was completely shell shocked. I was ecstatic but in shock that I was now responsible completely for another life and it was my co-creation and how did I manage that?! I was in awe that I had actually done what millions of other women had done, given birth and now an added responsibility of 'mommy' in my life ahead!
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!
Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia.
The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang.
I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.
My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying about whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened. As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.
For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.
Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.
It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.
You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.
I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!
If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.
My life was changed in one breath from God.
Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning.
I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.
Most of the folks to whom I listen are concerned for their future. Too many of them know someone who's out of work, has lost their own job, or fear they might. And, they increasingly believe that the opportunity for a better life for their children is slipping away.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.