Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.
We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.
Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.
If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.
Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean, we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets, too.
Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
A woman could be totally powerless, and still give meaning to her life by dreaming about flight.
Chapters - Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn’t mean the end of the book.
Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.
Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death
Just because you knew it, doesn't mean you must reveal it. There are circumstances in life that should remain as secrets.
John Keating: Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
This principle - that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend - is a game changer when you address the question of compatibility in a prospective spouse. If you think of marriage largely in terms of erotic love, then compatibility ...
One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me before the life was ended, the doctor drew the poison from my stomach with a syringe, and when I woke, it was to the sound of my own weeping. For I had h...
If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community. 'A polis is not an associa...
just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly,...
