Life Quotes
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We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.
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One of my biggest intellectual influences in my life was Alex Karp of Palantir.
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Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.
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The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing else has ever come close.
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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
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I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.
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The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.
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Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale - you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath - the night is done. You are light and morning.
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I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
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The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.
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Not knowing what will happen makes life fun.
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I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.
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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
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Don't let your cool stand in the way of being soulful. Life is too short. Too short to hate. Too short to judge. Too short not to live for. Don't let anything or anyone get the best of you or your heart and mind. If you are going down... go down swinging, singing, and loving.
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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
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Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.
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I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction.
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I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
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Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.
