Life Quotes - Page 343

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process... We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

Beauty lives with kindness.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.