To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Entertainment is there to improve people’s quality of life. After your basic needs, there’s entertainment.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier.
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying
the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I
now enjoy.
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
Perhaps – I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since “the rest of your life” won’t last forever.
But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren’t what people wanted to hear.
There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Love is forever. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be the world.
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
You can’t have living without dying. So you can’t call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn’t own doodley-squat, so they couldn’t improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world … do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
War is not for winning, Masha,” sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. “It is for surviving.
I loved you long before you loved me. It’s the only thing I have you beat at, and I’ll bring it up every chance I get.
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else–that’s how you’ll get ahead.
Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common….
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you’ll see the world
If I’m not mistaken…
Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure…
Face your life
Its pain,
Its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
There’s gon’ be some stuff you gon’ see
that’s gon’ make it hard to smile in the future.
But through whatever you see,
through all the rain and the pain,
you gotta keep your sense of humor.
You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.
Remember that.
The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.