Billy Joel Quotes

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.

You never want to judge your character.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.

When I begin to work on myself, sometimes things get worse before they get better. It is okay if this happens, because I know that it's the beginning of the process. It's untangling old threads. I just flow with it. It takes time and effort to learn what I need to learn. I don't demand instant change.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

I don't want to spend my time thinking about somebody else, I want to spend my time just being me and embracing life and living it and being there. At the end of the day, I'm responsible for my words and my thoughts and that's how I live.

Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one

You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you're young, you don't want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously.

Do I want to be right or be happy?

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!