life

"I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk."

"If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me."

"Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief."

"Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here, he never felt at home in Britain. This juxtaposition was a crucial source of his strength and originality. Because of his colour and origin, he saw the country differently - not as a native, but as an outsider."

"All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy."

"Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are."

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

"If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?"

"The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"The best part about being a writer is being able to communicate with people without moving my lips. The mouth is better used for kissing."

"Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making."

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."

"I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live."

"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."

"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."

"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."