Quotes about Life

I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.

When I lost my wife I had a whole different concept of her life. She lived 21 years and people who knew her know it wasn't about the great things she did on this earth. It wasn't that she had money or had popularity, it was that she loved Jesus Christ more than anything else in this world. That was how she related to the world.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

Glorious wrappings sheath the gift of one day more. Breathless I unwrap the package. Never lived this day before.

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

As long as one suffers one lives.

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.