This Life Quotes
I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.
Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.
I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.
Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.
There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.
From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself
I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage funny how life works out like that.
Nash has been the sun lighting up the horizon of my life, outshining everything else in my world. I'd thought once that he was to good to be true. Turns out I was right.
I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.
As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.
Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.
Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.
Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.
The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.
Remember, meditation will bring you more and more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radiant intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and sensitive; your life will become richer
Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.
Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.
Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.
And I'm excited when I find somebody stimulating to talk with. That's one of the great treasures in life.
Having success at an early age gave me more of a sense of what's important in life rather than always driving to make it.
