Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not.

James is tremendously positive in all aspects of life, a kid who takes everything head on, and those are big pluses for any 17-year-old to have.

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there

It’s fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances when you’re not safe when you’re not in the middle of the road…

Le cicatrici sono come gli anni, diceva, dopo uno ne viene un altro e solo se le metti tutte insieme hai una persona

You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I’ve always thought–put together all those random pieces form everyone who’s ever known you from your parents to the...

I want to love like a rain drop loves the earth.

[Why did these strangers embrace her when her mother could not? At Planned Parenthood, she had met pro-life parents who supported abortions for their daughters.] Everyone has an exceptional case when confronted with difficult situations...

If like fcuks you hard, you fcuk her more harder. If she betrays, put little bit more effort and she will be dead flat.

I see dull people as projects … to be reformed

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our...

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one purpose only: you need to change everything and move forward.

Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door, or wish the opposite – that they would stay forever.

Imagine, dream, act, discover and wonder. Everyday is a new day to love and wonder.

i see the sky as beautiful, Regardless of its shine Because I wake each day grateful, That I get another chance to be alive.

Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of...

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with...

Your life has intrinsic value, not simply because of who you are as an individual, but because of who He is as your God.

I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

For love I have invested my life with no return

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I...

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

I was living my own future and my brother’s lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might...

If you can’t Smile for Yourself then Smile for Others

If you can’t be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit existence, where you only live for others.

To Hear What Silence Is Saying, You Must Have Inner Peace. A Violent Mind Can’t Understand It….

I just broke up with my girlfriend. My wife will be pleased. But first she’ll be displeased, because she didn’t know I had a girlfriend.

On No Work of WordsOn no work of words now for three lean months in the bloodyBelly of the rich year and the big purse of my bodyI bitterly take to task my poverty and...

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)

Stretch your mind and be very kind. Stress will melt away and life will be fine.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature’s sci-fi.

When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don’t have to have eaten it to know that...

Learn and train yourself to take the hits in life. Obstacles, barriers and setbacks will come. What matters is how you tackle them, work your way around or find your way through them.

One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.

To Be Happy, You Must Know The Pass Code of Life. And Life Gives You Many Attempts To Unlock It….

Happiness is not an experience, but the essence of experience.

Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities...

‎”Victory isn’t defined by wins or losses. It is defined by effort. If you can truthfully say, ‘I did the best I could, I gave everything I had,’ then you’re a winner.

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

Nothing can cure the mind but the love, nothing can possess the love but the mind.

Today, I don’t want to ask for anythingI just want to give thanks for Everything I already have.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

All of life, Orhan realizes, is a story within a story; how we choose to listen and which words we choose to speak makes all the difference.

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment–discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.

Happiness is not a destination but a choice.

One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

I know that someday our works will turn to dust . Eager for life like a virgin lust . Love is strong as strong as gust . Searching for dreams in a neverending coast ....