Quotes of: American-life Keyword

Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.

Herschel Walker

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Simone de Beauvoir

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats it...

Henry Miller

Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away.

Jenny Offill

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

Jerry Saltz

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

Jewel

You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.

Above All Else, Success in Life and Business

My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.

Adam Bede

May you find grace and power of the Holy Spirit to give you hope for a new life.

The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

My cat stood still like a furry statue. I wanted to go pet it, but I ended up petting a painting instead. Ah, but that’s life, no?

Ah, but that's life, no?

He’s only two years younger, but that doesn’t mean I’m not old enough to be his father. I grew up fast. Ah, but that’s life, no?

Ah, but that's life, no?

I don’t sleep on the left side of the bed, or the right side, because there is a third option: to not sleep. After all, sleep is like death. Ah, but that’s life, no?

Ah, but that's life, no?

I’m forced to shower in the closet, because my friend is wearing all my clothes, and he’s in the bathtub at the moment. Ah, but that’s life, no?

Ah, but that's life, no?

I made love to a woman on a boat once. It was still on the showroom floor, but the way I rocked it made it feel like the ocean. Ah, but that’s life, no?

Ah, but that's life, no?

My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.

Acting Out

Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.

Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to live the life of a child forever. For what is a man's life, unless woven into the life of our ancestors by the memory of past deeds?

On the Ideal Orator

She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?

The Joy of Life

Your soul is a precious gift from an imaginative loving Source that endlessly breathes life.

Journey to Joyful: Transform Your Life with Pranashama Yoga

When hope does awaken, an entire life awakens along with it. One comes fully to life. It begins to seem indeed that one has never lived before…Wherever hope rises, life rises.

Reasons Of The Heart

Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.

Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive