Lifestyle Quotes

You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.

~ Mireille Guiliano

One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much.

~ David Halberstam

Being able to say, “No,” is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.

~ David W. Earle

Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.

~ Daniel Quinn

Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes. It is not hard to go the extreme way, but what is really difficult is neither to fast nor to feast, but to be moderate in everything we do.

~ Eknath Easwaran

Discipline is needed in our lifestyle.

~ Sunday Adelaja

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

~ Maureen Corrigan

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

~ Oscar Wilde

America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.

~ Amit Ray

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Why was it considered normal for a girl to live for fashion and makeup, but not car engines or bugs? And what about sports fanatics? My mom had a boyfriend who would flip out if he missed even a minute of a football game. Wouldn't that be what doctors considered autistic behavior?

~ Tara Kelly

The household was pervaded by this atmosphere of a calm adult woman and a man who gave into animal impulses. She reported to him in great detail what her analyst ... said about his binges and his hostility; she used Charley's money to pay Dr. Andrews to catalog his abnormalities. And of course Charley never heard anything directly from the doctor; he had no way of keeping her from reporting what served her and holding back what did not. The doctor, too, had no way of getting to the truth of what she told him; no doubt she only gave him the facts that suited her picture, so that the doctor's picture of Charley was based on what she wanted him to know. By the time she had edited both going and coming there was little of it outside her control.

~ Philip K. Dick

She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.

~ Philip K. Dick

On one hand she seems so agile, so athletic, and yet I've seen her appear so awkward that it embarrassed me. She gives the impression of a hard, worldly adroitness, and in some situations she's like an adolescent: rigid with ancient, middle class attitudes, unable to think for herself, falling back on old verities...victim of her family teaching, shocked by what shocks people, wanting what people usually want. She wants a home, a husband, and her idea of a husband is a man who earns a certain amount of money, helps around the garden, does the dishes...the idea of a good husband that's found in This Week magazine; a viewpoint from the most ordinary stratum, that great ubiquitous world of family life, transmitted from generation to generation. Despite her wild language.

~ Philip K. Dick

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage without a scroll button?

~ Dennis Lehane

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

~ Seneca

I would rather be a poor man in a rich country than a rich man in a poor country.

~ Wanchain

We will never know true bliss while our lifestyles are reliant on the misery and suffering of others.

~ Mango Wodzak

When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. (Could the milk man be the devil? )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Consider the fruit of the Spirit, that is what the Christian life should be.

~ Henry Hon

The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials...it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

~ Robert Kennedy

Most of the time, we are concerned with the truth. A cashier has to make sure he knows the exact change he's giving. A nurse has to apply just the right amount of medication to a patient. A mathematician checks and rechecks his proofs. A jury listens closely to all the facts to sort out the truth in a trial. A history teacher has to get the names and dates right. A scientists publishes work for peer review to make sure everyone gets the same results. In all of these cases and more, what's important is not opinion. What's important is the truth. Yet it seems that when it comes to questions of religion and spirituality and the accompanying moral questions, we suddenly become relativists. The truth doesn't matter. Instead of asking who God really is, we say, 'Who is God to you?' Instead of asking what it means that God became a man, we say that it's okay for some people to believe if they want. Instead of asking whether God expects something from us or has any divine commands for us, we judge religious expectations by what we want, by whether a religion fits into our lifestyle. The pursuit of objectivity goes out the window, and subjectivity reigns.

~ Andrew Stephen Damick

Savour a slow-paced contented life.

~ Fennel Hudson

I wish for a simple life.

~ Fennel Hudson

It is so hard for a queer person to become an adult. Deprived of the markers of life's passage, they lolled about in a neverland dreamworld. They didn't get married. They didn't have children. They didn't buy homes or have job-jobs. The best that could be aimed for was an academic placement and a lover who eventually tired of pansexual sport-fucking and settled down with you to raise a rescue animal in a rent-controlled apartment.

~ Michelle Tea

You will never be a greater risk-taker in the markets if you approach life with a completely different attitude.

~ Henrique M. Simões

It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

When you find something you genuinely enjoy, don't let anyone else make you feel bad about it. Don't feel guilty about the pleasure you take in the things you enjoy. Celebrate them.

~ Austin Kleon

what a life would be if i could just live in the mountains dense with greenery, sit by my window and read my favourite books.

~ Arushi Singh

Eat clean to stay fit, have a burger to stay sane.

~ Gigi Hadid

When you get the red letters right, it all makes sense.

~ Don C Harris

You must go to the extreme to find out who you are, but sometimes, you never go back.

~ Lawrenz Mejia

You will never Grow until you come out of your Comfort Zone and Try some new Things.......

~ Amarnath Kamaraj

Your life has purpose and meaning. Don't devalue yourself giving someone else meaning.

~ Michelle Cook-Hall

Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.

~ Agatha Christie

I made very good money and spent all of it every week. I lived paycheck to paycheck...

~ Augusten Buroughs

My goal was to get through the day as fast as possible. I worked fast because I wanted to be done. I wanted to be done because I wanted to go home to my nest and drink.

~ Augusten Burroughs

Nowadays, our lifestyle is to follow the herd than to use the head.

~ Prabakaran Thirumalai