Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
It was the worst moment of my life, to realize she was really gone, never to return.”
Tara does not know what it would be like to have lived with the same person, loved the same person, for so many years, and suddenly have them not be with you ever again.
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head,
It will get easier, your dreams are not dead.
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.
I think computer viruses should count as life … I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.
Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….” He turned to me. “But every once in a while, you find someone who’s iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Grace doesn’t depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me…
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
I cherish my entire life. I’ve been blessed with a life full of good memories.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I’ve always thought–put together all those random pieces form everyone who’s ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you’d probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
I wake up and tear drops, they fall down like rain. I put on that old song we danced to and then, I head off to my job cause not much has changed. Punch the clock, head for home, check the phone. Just in case. Go to bed, dream of you. That’s what I am doing these days.
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the Super Bowl, all that matters is that you put in the work, you deserved it, and you earned it.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn’t even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?
In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.