Life Quotes - Page 263

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.

We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

The reason you have what you have is because that is what you have decided to settle for right now. Change your mind, change your life.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free

I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.