Top 100 Quotes About Interest In Life
#1. Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
#2. It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.
Abigail Brown
#3. For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.
Marguerite Duras
#4. Any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
John Wilmot
#5. There is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
Madame De Stael
#6. I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
Michel Foucault
#7. To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Gelett Burgess
#8. Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.
Remy De Gourmont
#9. The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.
Edward T. Hall
#10. Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive way. They try to be more than human (perfect and controlling) or less than human (losing interest in life or stagnated in some addictive behavior).
John Bradshaw
#11. The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life ...
Elspeth Huxley
#12. I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don't you think?
George Saunders
#13. The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
Virginia Woolf
#14. There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.
Josephine Tey
#16. I must frankly admit that ... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.
Adolf Hitler
#17. Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.
Lincoln Ellsworth
#18. I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.
Enzo Ferrari
#19. The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Oscar Wilde
#20. I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.
George Eliot
#21. Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
Billy Graham
#22. We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#23. We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.
Jacqueline Bisset
#24. My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
Richard Branson
#25. I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
Martha Stewart
#26. Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.
Boyd K. Packer
#27. Without the interplay of human against human, the chief interest in life is gone; most of the intellectual values are gone; most of the reason for living is gone.
Isaac Asimov
#28. All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
#29. Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].
Joseph Pilates
#30. Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
John D. Rockefeller
#31. All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
#32. What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#33. As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run ... What an interest it imparts to life!.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#34. To be agreeable, all that is necessary is to take an interest in other persons and in other things, to recognize that other people as a rule are much like one's self, and thankfully to admit that diversity is a glorious feature of life.
Frank Arthur Swinnerton
#35. To those looking on with interest, and there were plenty of gawking eyes fixed on her, she supposed she appeared to be gliding with ease. But in truth, the crushing weight of her charmed life made each demure step as tortuous as a death march.
Carey Baldwin
#36. Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure.
Karen Karbo
#37. To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.
Ludwig Bemelmans
#38. No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
Kevin Spacey
#39. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#40. It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.
Gretchen Rubin
#41. By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
Florence Nightingale
#42. My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.
Galen Rowell
#43. I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.
Ian McEwan
#44. You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical," he went on. "I told you I am eager to further our acquaintance. I want to know what you think about things. What you want out of life. What you dream.
-Lucien to Alice
Gaelen Foley
#45. I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.
Sean Penn
#46. I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
Robert Caro
#47. He grinned. "It's more of a personal challenge. Do you have any interest in getting to know me at all? Personally, I mean."
"Can't I just Google you? Isn't your entire life somewhere online?"
He scowled. "Probably.
Olivia Cunning
#48. The theater has fallen into the hands of real estate men and syndicates and those who have no love or interest in the stage or its life, but who have considered it principally as a means to make money.
Eva Le Gallienne
#49. In character-building and in living the Christian life, concentration is important. The [person] who has a general interest in everything usually isn't too good at anything.
Billy Graham
#50. I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life. I've never set out to make a lot of money..
Clive Palmer
#51. I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.
Francois Gautier
#52. It existed almost by oversight, "far removed from reality," as one of the "Kandy Kids" wrote, "where everyone had an academic interest in the war but found life far too pleasant to do anything too drastic about it.
Bob Spitz
#53. Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.
Jim Rohn
#54. Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.
Robert Musil
#55. In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.
Damon Runyon
#56. Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
Madame De Stael
#57. If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings.
Susan Polis Schutz
#58. Interest and enthusiasm are the wellspring of continually evolving community life: they create bonds which unite us whether we are young or old, nearby or far from each other; they allow human warmth and love to be the formative forces in personal and community life and striving.
Henning Hansmann
#59. Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.
Karen Salmansohn
#60. A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.
Don Kates
#61. The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
John Berger
#62. You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.
Marian Keyes
#63. We are interested in what we love.
We love what we are interested in.
What we are interested in also loves us and is interested in us.
And the way this interest and love unveils is one of the major mysteries of life.
Franco Santoro
#64. It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#65. Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
Kate O'Mara
#66. The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#67. What were her abilities? She played the pianoforte passably well even though it didn't interest her. She loved to read and could spend the rest of her life in a library. She'd written a book, and her imagination was such that she could transport herself from the wilds of Scotland to anywhere.
Karen Ranney
#68. I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
Charlie Kaufman
#69. When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.
Arnon Goldfinger
#70. The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
W. Somerset Maugham
#71. You need to take some time off and delve into the study of the topic you are interested in
Sunday Adelaja
#72. Allow others to talk about themselves instead of being obsessed about telling them or bragging about yourself and your possessions and achievements. Show a genuine interest in others and allow them to tell their story so you can share the conversation.
Archibald Marwizi
#73. Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.
Elisabeth Elliot
#74. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
Bertrand Russell
#75. I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut. I started taking those steps, and then I realized it would be the chance of a lifetime. It would be a dream life: not just a job, but the whole life.
Michael J. Massimino
#76. The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
Wael Ghonim
#77. An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.
Thomas Heatherwick
#78. My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
Yahoo Serious
#79. I had never been in love before Abby, and no one had even piqued my interest since. My life was the woman standing before me, and the family we'd made together.
Jamie McGuire
#80. I understand basketball is not my entire life. It's only a part of my life. And there are a lot of other things that interest me a great deal ... other goals to seek, and this is how I have balance in life.
Yao Ming
#81. Your problems will keep coming and going. It is in your interest to deal with them with equanimity and focus on finding happiness in whatever you do. Be the kind of person who says about problems - this too shall pass, and about happiness - it is my constant companion.
Lamees Alhassar
#82. I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.
Nick Hornby
#83. Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
Charles Lamb
#84. Readers of Darwin's life, for instance, and particularly of the published correspondence of Darwin, are henceforth naturalists in the making. Ever afterwards they are Darwins on a small scale, seeing animals and plants in an entirely different light and with a correspondingly keener interest.
John Steeksma
#85. I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.
Steve Earle
#86. Guys are so easy to drive out of your life, especially when their interest in you has mostly been sustained by your blind, naive, hopelessly hopeful interest in them.
Marla Miniano
#87. Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.
F. M. Powicke
#88. A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life ... whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.
Julia Child
#89. Some people think God should in some way come to you and assist you, should answer your prayers. Why? It exists in perfect ecstasy beyond the dualistic consciousness. It's totally oblivious to you. It has no interest in your life or your death - it doesn't matter.
Frederick Lenz
#90. I like to be able to understand the feeling of the director, that a film corresponds to something in his life. Otherwise, it doesn't interest me much.
Louis Garrel
#91. It is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#92. The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.
Beatrice Sparks
#93. Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.
Percival Lowell
#94. He's the embodiment of the one thing in life I need like a hole in the head - another bad-boy love interest.
M. Leighton
#95. My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#96. In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.
Charlie Munger
#97. Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
Barack Obama
#98. I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
Jeffery Deaver
#99. The desire of your vital being is towards work. And the vital being won't find any interest in yoga so long as you do not have any experience of the higher and fuller life that is in yoga. As long as this experience is not there, the vital being will not find any interest.
Sri Aurobindo
#100. It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
