Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
Ronnie DioFamily makes me feel there's a reason I'm alive... I'm feeling my life, which I didn't always do partly because I'd be drunk a lot.
Sean PennThe freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact
Julie BurchillLife is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel ButlerIt is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare PaveseDefinition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
Peter McWilliamsBut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert CamusForsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
William MorrisSome deep thinkers believe life is a paradox not to be understood but experienced to the fullest
Gillian MckeithWhen you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!
Oprah WinfreyI balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
W B YeatsThe price of a kiss may be your life. Don't hesitate to pay it.
John A MarshallBetween two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Lord ByronThere is more to life than increasing its speed.
GandhiI may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
Chester A ArthurI really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
Shania TwainIt is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel TrillingRob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness
Henrik IbsenFor the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
J A SchumpeterArt is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S TrumanI'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life.
Shania TwainNo one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De AngelisWe make a living by what we get. But we make a life by what we give.
Winston ChurchillI've often wondered about people that come to the profession [acting] late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.
William ChristopherAchievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn RandIf you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humour.
Jennifer JonesThe first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho MarxThe shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt
Calvin TrillinHistory teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.
Arthur GoldbergThere is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher MorleyRiches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Henry Ward Beecher Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.
Brittany MurphyIn dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao TzuThe true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonI don't think we've been influenced massively by our success and by our travels. The lyrics [singer Chris Martin] writes are more basic than that, more basic, emotional ideas rather than life experiences. There's probably a few lines in there which reflect what's happened in the last year or so, but it's hard to say
Guy BerrymanFaith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich'Life itself is the most wonderful faery tale.'
Hans Christian AndersenThe life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance
Henry LiddonThe sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
Iris MurdochTo love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar WildeI want to do this and be like Madonna. She's lived her life.
Avril LavigneWhat a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte - there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.
Lord ByronFamily life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold NiebuhrI don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.
Jennifer Love HewittAll my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
Harry S TrumanUntil you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
Geoffrey FisherWhat I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it’s all about life experiences, and I’m very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.
Jensen AcklesDressing is a way of life.
Yves Saint LaurentCustom, then, is the great guide of human life (An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding)
David HumeThe secret to life is enjoying the passage of time.
James Taylor
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