Life Quotes
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Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
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There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.
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I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
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When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.
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I'm a different immigrant. My life is so lucky compared to so many.
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The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
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Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.
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Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.
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Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.
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Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
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Chaos is the undercurrent of everything that happens in life.
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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
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When you get things wrong in life, it is important to talk about them.
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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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The life I live is my art work.
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Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
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When I don’t touch you it’s a mistake in any life, in each place and forever.
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.
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I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I just can't understand, I have to "poem" my way through it. For that reason I write a lot about family, because my family confuses me and I'm always trying to figure them out. I write a lot about love, because love is continually confusing in all of its many glorious aspects.
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However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.
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In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.
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My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.
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Life wasn't like that before, and I couldn't previously accept that things might not work out the way I wanted.