It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
Jordan PetersonLife is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
Jack LondonLife can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
John C. MaxwellAs is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTo be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
BuddhaIt is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Immanuel KantEach generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George OrwellWhen you’re older you want to learn from other people.
Ray BradburyIt’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.
Frank OceanKeep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar WildeFreedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma GandhiThere is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
John F. KennedyHe only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLife is warfare.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLife is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William ShakespeareIf you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce LeeI pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
Dan QuayleYou live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas AdamsThere is nothing permanent except change.
HeraclitusLife is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice WalkerHealth is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.
Stephen HawkingI feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
J. K. RowlingGrowing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
Billy GrahamYou learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Bob DylanI argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily DickinsonAll life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest HemingwaySenator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.
George W. BushThere is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthurI’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWork gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen HawkingIt is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich NietzscheLife is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.
Katharine HepburnWhere there is love there is life.
Mahatma GandhiBeware the hobby that eats.
Benjamin FranklinAnd no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.
Steve JobsI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
Alice WalkerWe all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne FrankThe truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
EminemThey’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.
Clint EastwoodBe brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo CoelhoLife is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou HoltzI never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘
Angelina JolieIt is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
PlatoYou can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
Bob DylanThe feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.
Kurt VonnegutI’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.
Taylor SwiftMan does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David ThoreauWorking with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.
Bad BunnyOnce I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen KellerSo I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.
Richard BransonPeople think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.
RihannaWe should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAll that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
James MadisonI have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas JeffersonLife must be lived as play.
PlatoThat’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.
Stephen KingWe might as well die as to go on living like this.
Charlie Chaplin