Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don’t we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That’s how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there...

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you’ve told, and all the people you’ve told them to, and then living the lies that have...

A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can...

As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored by restoring the wholeness of work. There is work that is isolating, harsh, destructive, specialized or trivialized into...

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously...

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’ I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle...

You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain.

Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright – getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

I like photography as a recording device. It’s the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

People have to forgive. We don’t have to like them, we don’t have to be friends with them, we don’t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to...

In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse.

Stop living in the shadows of another. You’ve been given everything needed to live a purposed filled life. Don’t be a second rate version of yourself.

I’m living with skid-marks guy.[Miranda]

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it’s wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that’s what I believe as well.

It’s great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is...

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn’t until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able...

Am I making something worth while?I’m not sure.I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, into other lives, other hearts,but am I making...

Living is abnormal.

Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live!

I’d think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that’s what cheap places do — draw in people with no money. An apartment of my own was unthinkable at that time...

To be happy, count your blessings and discount the lessings.

Stop existing and start living!

I do not worship a DEAD and buried Christ at Calvary. I worship a ressurected and LIVING Christ in Heaven! Jesus Christ is alive.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

…the real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

In the midst of life we are in death,'” said Miss Ophelia.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

Forget the American dream…whats your dream? The thing that keeps you up at night…the thing that makes you happy…the thing that keeps your spirit going. Do that thing. Don’t label it a hobby or what...

We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we’re born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.

Wherever you are you have to work to earn your own living.

It’s neat living downtown. I had built a house in Manitou, and I owned a couple fixer-uppers. I can see myself living here five or 10 years.

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and...

There were speakers everywhere. His whole living room was filled with them. He kept every speaker he ever bought.

Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.

I’m just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don’t know if I’ve ever been...

Lest you forget the strong develop and improve the weak get frantic digress and deviate

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the...

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man’s law shall bind you if...

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song...