My Life Quotes

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once, then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.

~ James Van Der Beek

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

~ Dar Williams

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

~ Chelsea Peretti

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

~ Scott Stapp

I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

~ Kendrick Lamar

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

~ Seamus Heaney

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

~ Felix Dennis

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

~ Erica Jong

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

~ Edward Hirsch

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

~ Donald Hall

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

~ Donald Hall

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.

~ Donald Hall

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

~ Saul Williams

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

~ Alanis Morissette

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life.

~ Alanis Morissette

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

~ Sting

Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.

~ Andy Garcia

With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

~ David Coverdale

I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.

~ Dan Marino

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

~ Julian Lennon

My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.

~ Gong Li

Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.

~ Sebastian Vettel

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

~ Fernando Flores

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.'

~ Jennifer Grant

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

~ Chief Joseph

I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.

~ Tyler

There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house - like the sticks, the helmet.

~ Tyler Posey

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

~ George Burns

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

~ Mike Tyson

In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.

~ Norodom Sihamoni