Life Quotes

There is something that happens when you get emancipated. You approach life differently. You eat differently. You respect yourself more. You respect the gift you have been given.

How wonderful life is while you're in the world.

I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became Elton John excess... Everything I couldn't do when I was younger I did 10 times over. I was having the time of my life. I was becoming the person that I wanted to be.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Don't make your career be your life. Let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

My voice was the conductor of my life.

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.