Life Quotes - Page 477

I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.

When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got...

We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied possession of Euclidean geometry that offers us the impression, or the illusion, that it has, that world, already been encompassed in a manageable intellectual structure. The lineaments of that structure are well known: as in the rest of life, something is given and something is gotten; but the logic behind those lineaments is apt to pass unnoticed, and it is the logic that controls the system.

Nothing you will ever do in your lifetime is likely to make you as much money as buying a home and living in it.

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message.

Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.

Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.

Life yields only to the conqueror.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

Be superior to pleasure.

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Life is the space between our things.

The purpose of life is to live it.

I don't want to die without any scars.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.