That Is Life. Quotes

Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.

Revolution starts in the mind. Question Everything!

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

You need to take pride in what God has given you.

If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.

Let your resistance, judgements, angers and fears inform you.

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

Boundaries and risk management are very important parts of living a healthy and positive life.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

The struggle is beautiful.

Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.

Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.

We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.