"When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose."
"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes."
"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."
"The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things."
"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."
"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."
"I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that."
"I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature."
"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
"God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done."
"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."
"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."
"Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them."
"You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now."
"Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important."
"Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light."
"The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load."
"I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream."
"I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding."
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself."
"I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging."
"Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore."
"Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous."
"I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict."
"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."
"I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one."
"We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone."
