Life Quotes - Page 553

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.

The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down.

If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you're showing up for.

The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.

Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.

Life is one big transition.

It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington!

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.

The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

Nothing is wrong with the inlet: It is the outlet that is obstructed. The water of life does not spring forth because the flow has no way through. Were the outlet cleared, the water of life would flow unceasingly. What a child of God needs is not more life but more flow of life.

Genius awaits him who listens. The messages of genius are for the Soul of man. The senses of man comprehend them not.

I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.