Life Quotes

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

~ Lee Tergesen

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

~ Bob Marley

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

~ Summer Altice

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

~ Clyde Tombaugh

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

~ Sylvia Kristel

I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping.

~ Jane Birkin

My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

~ Felicity Kendal

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

~ Alexis Carrel

Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that.

~ Gong Li

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

~ D. H. Lawrence

Use plants to bring life.

~ Douglas Wilson

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

~ D. Elton Trueblood

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

~ Jean Anouilh

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

~ Bill Watterson

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

~ J. B. Smoove

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

~ Mark Hyman

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life - that is, to be happy.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

~ Zoe Foster Blake

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

~ Halle Berry

Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive.

~ Sheherazade Goldsmith

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

~ Marisol Nichols

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

~ Stephen King

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

~ Elliott Erwitt

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

~ Donald Knuth

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes!

~ Francois Nars

The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.

~ Homaro Cantu

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

~ Christian Louboutin

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

~ Shinichi Suzuki

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

~ Jane Smiley

Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life.

~ John O'donohue

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

~ Leni Riefenstahl

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

~ Agnes Martin

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?

~ Jennifer Garner

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

~ L. Wolfe Gilbert

I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

~ Ariana Grande

My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.

~ Caterina Murino

Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

~ Kenny G

All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

~ Fernando Botero