If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.
Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.
An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.
When you're strong physically, it improves your strength in every other facet of your life. You're more confident, your self-esteem is higher, and your self image is better.
The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life.
You have to be a champion in all facets of life.
I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I've always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness.
Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
I am, 'Guardian' readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I've lived a high proportion of my life abroad. The fact that I oppose the political amalgamation of the European Union's states is ipso facto proof that I dislike foreigners.
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
I probably carry a fair amount of sarcasm in my daily life.
