Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.
If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
I know how you feel, Willem,” Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, “but he doesn’t want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. “I will go mad!” he annouced.
I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.
Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn’t hurt the untroubled spirit either.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Life may not be pretty but it’s always beautiful. We may only see the ugliness on the surface. The shit that only the world chooses to notice. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there’s no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are and love freely without judgement, it’s really beautiful.
I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles.
We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
I’m hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let’s all get wasted and have the time of our lives.
A life isn’t measured in hours and minutes. It’s the quality, not the length.
Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.
Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.
What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.
I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.
And now I am here, as alone as I’ve ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it’s suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.
Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.
But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
You know, people ask me. They say ‘Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?’ but they don’t understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.
God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it’ll take us next.
I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I’m sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual – we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I’m sure that is entirely wrong.
Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life,” murmured Niko. “They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean’s pulse, and our own heartbeat.
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
Life goes on. Get over it. You’re still young. It’ll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time…
…why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can’t help but bless them for a good future. Because I can’t tell that child, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t have come into this life.’ And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.
I think I’m always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.
– Celine
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.
She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.
If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU…
I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes — it’s about all kinds of change
So, what is my story? I don’t know. It’s long and twisted and not quite finished yet.
May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is … Chocolate.
Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.