Life Quotes - Page 654

My own mind is my own church.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

I've never had a very great public life.

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.

If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Cast aside your doubts. Make a total commitment to living the life you were meant to live.

Live life today and deal with tomorrow when it comes!

Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to me that in its purity it was almost abstract. This was what I could understand, this was how I lived my life, what I constructed my movement around, how I dealt with the tangible.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.

Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future. You shall be warned of dangers and shall be guided through the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.

Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him-without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one's agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, "I will do as you direct," is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.

To go to work every day for two years, that was life changing.

That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure that's where the invention of the afterlife comes from. "We don't really become worm food. We go to a magical place with bunnies and rainbows."

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.