- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Song
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.
- Hope
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I felt my whole life like I didn't have a family, and I needed one. So I had to build one, and you build one with faith, hope, and the healing power of love - or you end up the 'Unabomber.' That's the choice.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I have such a good life. It's something I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams.
- New
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I've spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain.
- Nov 07, 2020
I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me.
- Person
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is.
- Professional
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower singer at the minute.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
- Mother
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.
- Believe
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
- Job
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.
- Daily
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting.
- Nobody
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020