Life Quotes - Page 163

Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.

I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.