Life Quotes
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It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.
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I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red hair when in real life they haven't got red hair, I've noticed they don't recognize themselves, anyway.
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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.
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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
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People used to call me for donations, and I couldn't relate to that because I have spent most of my life trying to support myself.
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One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said "Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock.
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I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.
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Lots of folks want success without sacrifice. Life doesn't work that way. Be willing to pay the price for your dreams.
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God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.
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In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven
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Most of us can agree there is nothing more special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and important than life!
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A trip to the market in the morning to buy bread, an afternoon spent reading in a cafe—nothing was routine; a strange place helped you find the poetry in everyday life.
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Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar.
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Spirit and body, when joined together, become a living soul of supernal worth.
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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
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I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.
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I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.
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Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.
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I think life is what you live every day, and it just keeps coming at you. You never know what it's going to be.
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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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The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.
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It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.
