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...

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

Hope for the best,brace yourself for the worst and no matter what you’re faced with, make a plan to KEEP GOING!

Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

I have leveled with the girls – from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt’s the living together afterward that’s tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It’s an...

I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again.

He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you’ve done it all before, and you’re going to do it again, so why do it at all.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you...

There is a relationship between the eye contacts we make and the perceptions that we create in our heads, a relationship between the sound of another’s voice and the emotions that we feel in our...

It’s amazing how people can find all the mistakes in the world concerning another person, but look into the mirror every day without making changes within. Stop looking down your nose at others, What does...

Do not allow another person to set you back. Continue moving forward not backwards. When someone pulls you back, be like the arrow to a bow and spring forth greater than ever. And, what they...

All human activity is prompted by desire.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

I’m still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.

Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.

I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

The voice says, maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don’t do. The things you don’t finish.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object—the joy of living—is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up. There are valleys,...

RIGHT living guarantees a BRIGHT future

I was born into a town and a family and the town ad my family happened to me. I own none of it. It is everyone’s. It is shareware. I like it, I like having...

You can’t be living always in the promise of the clouds; it must rain now. Leave the talking and live by walking… It will yield an indelible impact!

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I...

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe’s work. We are either resisting him – stylistically, politically, or culturally – or we are writing...

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

…today, I’m writing about the extraordinary; those ‘moments’ in life that reach us, and change us. Those moments take place all the time, really – it’s just that we’re taught not to notice. We’re taught...

God and His Son are glorified personages. God the Father is our living Creator, and His Son, Jesus Christ, is our Savior and Redeemer. We have been created in God’s image.

It’s a living, breathing thing, acting.

When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no...

The cost of living is so high in Northern Virginia.

To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.

A lot of people don’t enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

It is unacceptable to pull the rug out from under hundreds of thousands of our neighbors living with HIV/AIDS and simply say your government is not there for you. We should be focusing on ways...

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.