Quotes about life

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

Alice Walker

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Oscar Wilde

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

Theodore Roosevelt

Life should be lived to the point of tears.

Albert Camus

I always tell people there’s nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that’s when we breakthrough usually – most people don’t proactively breakthrough – they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn’t feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you’re melted down you can recast your life in a new way.

Tony Robbins

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Angelina Jolie

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

Gloria Estefan

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

Stephen Hawking

I believe that life supports what supports more of life. In other words, motivation does matter. If you’re just trying to take care of yourself, you’re part of life and I believe life steps in and gives you a certain level of insight.

Tony Robbins