life

"Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...."He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare."

"Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'"

"Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."

"Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to."

"I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign."

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."

"I have led a pretty colorful life."

"In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'"

"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."

"There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way."

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

"I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!"

"It’s 4:00 in the afternoon and I’m just now putting on clothes. The life of a writer is as free as the pizza I just had delivered is not."

"Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others."

"Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought."

"No,’ Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up."

"The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing."

"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."

"I love life because what more is there?"

"Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love."