This Life Quotes
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.
I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.
The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?
The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.
I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.
New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.
I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.
I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.
Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.
Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.
My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.
That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word.
But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.
In life, you should seek the help you need. Do not depend on your own strength alone. You have never done all you can to finish a task until you have sought help from the Lord.
Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.
I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.
The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
I've sacrificed lots of aspects of my personal life to do what I do.
I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with them, or being in a band and doing what I want to do.
I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.
I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!
But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.