Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.
Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they're not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning that life is fragile. You have to acknowledge that side of life to be able to then offer comfort and hope and goodwill.
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.
I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.
Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.
The women's movement gave me a set of tools to think about things like my body and how people react to me and the way that my dating life was going. It's a very practical movement - yes, it's about issues like how we can get more women MPs elected, but it's also about how feminism affects things like your relationship.
Before I realized what was happening, everything blew up. I made 'Animals' when I was in high school, and literally, from that moment, I've been living a different life. I've been touring a lot, traveling a lot, doing great shows. I've been in the studio with my biggest idols.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Life is too short to work so hard.
I love people who have goals. Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Simply put, if we can reduce the risk while increasing protection during the course of a young person's life, we can prevent problems and promote the healthy development of our children, our families, our economy, and the institutions we hold dear.
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
Having children has been one of the biggest things that has happened to me in my life.
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.
Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.
I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.
Came to acting pretty late. It looked wonderful, but I guess I was intimidated by my father. I look a bit like him, and he was so much bigger than life and so great, it took me a bit longer than most people to have enough confidence in myself.
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.'
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.
I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
