It is always good to have friends. Friends may be considered as part of the family because you have created and unbreakable bond. But, sometimes we outgrow certain people. We no longer have the same...

People become desensitized to many things going on around them. It is because they always see it on the tv, hear it on the radio, read or watch it on the internet, hear about it...

Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can’t stand for, forget affording.

Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face – the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man – all present still, preserved like fossils on...

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it’s hard to make a good living nowadays.

Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment.

I’ve had women who move to the towns I’m living in, just pack up and move there, never even met ’em before, ’cause they heard I lived there.

My vision is that I’m living to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times.

You may bend, but that will not bring your life to an end. Your refusal to give up is the key; your rose flowers blossom from the thorns of life!

As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life...

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices – they were about my...

THE SILENT PEOPLESome people are so rude,Living their lives with no concern for others,Or possibly just intent on pissing other people off-Annoying everyone around them.The silent people-Want to kill them-And drive forks into their skulls-Create...

Get used to it. Life doesn’t give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

My head is in another dimension. My feet are talking to their soles. My nose is detecting a hint of sweaty, overpumped poon. There’s a spider corpse perpetually hanging on the wall next to my...

When it’s about your life, it’s time to be selfish.

In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence...

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and...

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different – such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour –...

What’s the good of being alive if you don’t do anything?

Live not for Battles Won.Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

It never occurred to me before, but I always thought of time like it was a road, or an empty plane. I could see it and mark it and claim it as mine, but the...

It is never too late to start living the life you wish you had.

Don’t expect life to serve you what you expect. Just enjoy the buffet.

daddyand it contained within it the prospect of living and the hope of dying, of endings and beginnings, of love and loss and peace and rage, all wrapped up in two whispered syllables.

To be undefeated, to primer is to learn the game for not just your talents but for the game itself.

life is other, always there,further off, beyond you andbeyond me, always on the horizon,life which unlives us and makes us strangers,that invents our face and wears it away

No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe ‘Hansel and Gretel’ a little bit when they were walking through...

If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

A virus is a living-nonliving duality.

You are living far too much in the realms of your head. That is an ugly, mean, scary place to be. I am not just saying your head is nasty, everyone’s head is. You need...

I got a body covered in scars, but then who doesn’t? If you don’t have a few scars, you haven’t really lived.

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the face of the earth with as much grace and beauty as...

…you fantasize about me reading my poems to you – it doesn’t work that way – I write down everything later – living is not an after-thought…

Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past

You can believe what you’ve been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something...

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won’t. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it’s...

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It’s all part of the same person but it’s a much newer medium for me.

We live longerbut less preciselyand in shorter sentences.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles today,Tomorrow will be dying.

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

…Who knows what death, anxiety of the living, Who knows what loneliness, end of the lovingI could say to myself of the love (I had): Let it not be immortal, since it is flame But...

I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami’s and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven’t witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the...

If living Life is an art, then Only You can be the artist to make it colorful.

I Have Loved Hours at SeaI have loved hours at sea, gray cities,The fragile secret of a flower,Music, the making of a poemThat gave me heaven for an hour;First stars above a snowy hill,Voices of...