Jack Nicholson Quotes

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

The best things in life are free

I always think everything has been the best part of my life.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

I wouldn't want to be 20 again for anything.

Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.

I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.

I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.