Bruce Cockburn Quotes

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

Bruce Cockburn

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• Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Person
  • Needs

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Work
  • Father

• I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Death

• Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Mistakes

• The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Life
  • Man
  • Wise

• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Lies

• I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Train

• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual

• After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done

• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Life
  • Years
  • Insurance

• I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Country
  • Love

• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Taken

• It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Life
  • Change
  • Marriage

• In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Life
  • Art
  • Act

• When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

  

  Alan Ruck
  • Nature
  • Funny
  • Wish

• You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • Life
  • Choices

• Personal independence is a virtue and it is the soul out of which comes the sturdiest manhood. But there can be no independence without a large share of self-dependence, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from within.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Soul

• Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a small kingdom humbles itself before a great kingdom, it shall win over that great kingdom. Thus the one humbles itself in order to attain, the other attains because it is humble. If the great kingdom has no further desire than to bring men together and to nourish them, the small kingdom will have no further desire than to enter the service of the other. But in order that both may have their desire, the great one must learn humility.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Kingdom
  • Prize
  • Humbles

• I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Life