Quotes about life

In the inner city, there’s a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I’ve gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

Mary J. Blige

I’m not much of a family man. I’m just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don’t want to live my life for them.

Sting

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

Steven Wright

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

Audrey Hepburn

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

Tobias Wolff

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

George Bernard Shaw

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

Elon Musk

The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You’re thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.

Zig Ziglar

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

George A. Sheehan