Kris Kristofferson Quotes

Free is the best. Anything free is good.

We tend to not value anything that we get for free.

Life's a hobby.

I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

The Oriental doesn’t put the same high price on life as does the Westerner

When you get stuff for free, you have no self-worth.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

Every life is special.

Watching someone that you love, you think they have a certain amount of time left to live, changed everything for me. And tennis seemed not so important anymore.

I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.

Everyone's life is extraordinary if you look at it closely enough.

For me, keeping it simple is the best way to live life, to not complicate things, to sort of keep things in perspective.

People ask me, 'What is the mystique of the Texas songwriter?' Well, we ran barefoot from March until November. I think there's something about being a barefoot kid that gets you closer to the place - you take root.

I prefer jeans to a suit, sneakers to high heels, markets to malls.

I believe in living life organically, taking it as it comes.

I have this very simple logic about life that it should not be taken too seriously.

To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.

It don't cost money to ask.

The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

Hey mister, where you goin' in such a hurry? Don't you think it's time you realize There's a whole lot more to life than work and worry All the sweetest things in life are free And they're right before your eyes? You've got to stop and smell the roses You've got to count your many blessings every day You're gonna find your way to heaven is a rough and rocky road If you don't stop and smell the roses along the way

Life doesn't have to be about finding Osama bin Laden or becoming the president of the United States. Life is about the little things, which is one of the things you learn when you get older.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.

There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it. (from The Mirror of Her Dreams)