Life Quotes

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.

The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.

I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

I trusted Martin Bashir to come into my life and that of my family because I wanted the truth to be told.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

Carrying the Beatles or the '60s dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or the Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

I've made two 'discoveries' in my life: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono. I think that's a pretty damned good choice.