Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
My life is a series of things that just happen.
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.
My entire life is a single body of work.
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.
Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
Life is a school of probability.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.
My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
This life is a process of learning.
Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
Life is a rotten lottery. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.
Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
Life is a roller coaster. There are ups; there are downs. There are hills; there are valleys, peaks, and so on.
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
I have a hard time making movies that affirm life and say life is a good and happy place. That's not true about the world.
Everybody in life is a chameleon.
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
