I always look on imagination as one of the most powerful things we can cultivate in young people. If they have a good, active imagination, they can cope with life better; they are... able to imagine possibilities and to think around problems.
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Sometimes, you just need to get out of the game and should do things which you want to do in life and like.
What is writing but an expression of my own life?
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.
Life is all about having a good time.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.
To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.
There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films - control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.
I feel that my whole life is a contribution.
Not so very long ago, certainly well into the Thirties, a lady companion was a normal feature of life for widows or lone spinsters.
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.
Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best when they're carefully chosen - and when they don't take up much room!
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.
Art is longer than life.
Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
When I was obese, I reached a point where I was about to meet death, and I lost weight to restart my life.
