We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.
Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
The first word about you is that you received this life.
Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives.
You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'
I've jokingly said that everything I'm doing now is filling up the hours before I die, but I do feel that slightly. I have no religious beliefs so this is the ride. This is it. So I'm just like anyone, I suppose, trying to fill out the days in the most interesting way possible.
When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.
On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
Life is not a tour of gas stations.
You got to live before you can afford to die.
I'd hope that the story A Dog's Purpose helps everyone reflect on how many different "lives" we all live - from children to teenager to adults to seniors - and how each phase of life presents new situations along the way to discovering our ultimate purpose.
There are many paths but only one journey.
Life is serious. (Valerius) No, life is an adventure. It's thrilling and scary. Sometimes it's even a bit boring, but it should never be serious. (Tabitha)
I've been privy to certain experiences which have allowed me to realize how fleeting time is, in any case, and how ultimately not important this is. 'This' being the things perhaps we trip on in life.
Sometimes it's more about the journey than the destination.
I think that when you've only lived 17 years, you don't have, you haven't had a full canon of experiences, so every moment that you have here feels like the last moment in the world, because you've only had a handful of whatever those moments are.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
