If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness...

Hearts aren’t handcuffs and people aren’t prisons. When you feel it’s time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: ‘I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live

the living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.

I’m continuing to learn more about music – it’s an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I’m grateful that I’m still living and making music among the greats.

Failure people deal with life’s disappointment whereas the real people ride on disappointment to take the best lesson out of it to understand the character of persons they had in their network then. Dealing is...

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside...

I think that there are those who write of life being a skip on the sidewalk, a chocolate bar, a bowl of cherries… the problem with that is it ends up disappointing people. Because life...

People quick to criticize others, but won’t shine the light on themselves. You can’t always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how...

Wake up with a purpose and make every effort to succeed. Many people spend their lives just going through the motions. They are satisfied with their daily routines or habitual lifestyles. Don’t be complacent with...

The more living patterns there are in a place – a room, a building, or a town – the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has...

Everyone thinks that the old days were better, or that they were harder, and the modern times are chaotic and complex, or easier all around, but I think people’s hearts have always been the same,...

The most amazing thing that makes life worth living is your love.

tools.” And since the mind and body are interrelated, this understanding makes it easier to see why coordinating them is a practical way of using these tools to greatest effect—a way of using the mind...

I mean obviously, staying alive is pretty fucking important . . . but there’s got to be something beyond that, right?

I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

Times have changed. If we want to maintain our standard of living, we must be better than others. We have a cost issue in this country.

If you never been rabid, you ain’t never lived.

If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it’s kind of a...

Protect the future by living and fulfilling your God-given dreams.

When I’m living in L.A., I’m mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face – to worry about how to die – distinguishes us from other animals. The need...

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

We’re living in what I like to call the ‘Thank You Economy,’ because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way – and do it authentically...

None of us are ordinary – we just settle into ordinary lives.

The Atonement has not only helped me be cleansed, and be healed, but it has also helped me live.

Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

Just getting back to where I was my rookie year, this is everybody’s dream. We’re just living a dream so far. Hopefully we can get that jewelry at the end.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents’ living room and my older brother’s practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz… a beautiful chaos.

She knew there were only small joys in life–the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through–and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.

Between hope and despair treads a life without love!

Make the living worthwhile”…have we forgotten the very essence of that? Have we forgotten to live for someone else, that doing so IS what makes a living worthwhile?

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living – to always have a thing to look forward to.

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.

Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.

I want to go to Italy and France; those are my two places. And I really want to go to Greece. I’ve seen so many pictures on Airbnb that make me think I should be...

We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were ‘teen-agers’ – a term, coined in 1941, that was in...

[Bergman and Ullmann split after the pressures of their working and living together became too much. Bergman would obsess to his partner about his dreams.] When he told me about his nightmares, … I knew...

There is no living with thee, nor without thee

I do not particularly like the word ‘work.’ Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings...

Many of us are reactive, not proactive. We react. We hit back. We are ‘an eye for an eye’ practitioners. We attack when we are attacked, with good measure. Our barometer reads from the environment...

Eventually you just have to realize that you’re living for an audience of one. I’m not here for anyone else’s approval.

I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it….In my sleep, a natural death!

We’re living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, ‘They used to cut people’s legs off.’ Then they’ll just give an injection and the blood flow will be...

I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone – I understand it from a fan’s perspective but...

Within Eros, there is (the) promise; within Love there is (the) Truth.