This Life Quotes
Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.
Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.
What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.
If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?
All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.
Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.
I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.
A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji)
To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself
God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.
I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.
The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!