Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

Some people hear the voice of God in their dreams or through prayer or meditation. For me, God is truly in the details—the details found in the connections between the living things on the planet...

Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a...

Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well...

It’s just great to be out here, … I was just thankful to be living my dream of playing in the NBA.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

I’ll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can–until I die.

Create your best life with your consciously chosen thoughts, words, and actions.

Your purpose is why you you’re living, your vision is how you’re going to execute it.

This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while...

touch” in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings!

Erase the victim mentality. Remember you are capable of achieving greatness. If only you’d believe in your abilities to overcome. You are victorious. Celebrate the victory.

As you travel along the roads in life, there is a certain kind of peace that comes with knowing you’re on the right path. And when you are faced with adversity, it challenges you but...

[By Wednesday morning, the Arkansas Times had changed its tune, calling for a massive federal response.] For the living, the prospects of homes, power, water, phones, jobs, ATMs, medical services, food any semblance of normal...

The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further — universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically...

There’s nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story–if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other...

I am a complicated person with a simple life.

I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices.

It’s creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.What it’s going to be, I don’t...

The dead weren’t scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.

We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation.

Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. Doubt must precede every deeper...

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

But we have to learn to be free. We have to, Nell. Doesn’t mean happy all the time, or okay all the time. It’s okay not to be okay. I told you that, but I’m...

Living miserably isn’t what your destiny is made of. Therefore, always give yourself enough reasons why your life is nothing but a blissful journey.

If I buy a game on Steam and I’m running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit...

I dance for a living. At the early bird special you can find me—doing the worm.

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

As a boy, I’d always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn’t what one did for a living....

What’s the point of living if you don’t feel alive?

I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline...

Love is like is like the setting sunafter shining brightly, it dips steadilytill it disappears…only to resurface another day.

Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

All we know, Midnight. The best of all we know. For Chestry Valley and its master we loved. For Nana. For Sugarloaf and Brimstone Farm. For Pop and Mom and Tom. For the foals to...

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I’ve ended up doing that myself.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

But Viv, if I’ve learned anything at all in the last eight years of my life? It’s that people just like to tell themselves stories about where they came from. They can’t help themselves. They...

In my acting, I have tried to do this – to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

People will doubt you, but do you doubt your own self? People will insult your integrity, but do you trust yourself? If you are at peace with yourself and with God, you can be at...

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers...

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man’s got to fake just to stay alive.