John Milton Quotes

I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.

I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires.

I never wanted to be a fighter. This is what God said I'm going to do, and I'm happy with that.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I think my life did go the way it was supposed to go for me.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.

I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

The best way to survive life is - never fret over what you don't get. There's a bigger plan for you.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

I have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK.

'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.

Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.