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We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.
On Hollywood turning its back on him: I wasn't in the club. You see, I'm not going to be a stroker. I never have been all my life.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is what you worship as God ... and earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.
The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?
When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.
Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.
Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.
I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life.. whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.
Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.
Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change
"Loving You is Easy Cause You're Beautiful" Hers was a gift of love, a miracle of life, For all the world to see and hear forever.
A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.
The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.
At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.
For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Much ado there was, God wot; He woold love, and she woold not, She sayd, "Never man was trewe;" He sayes, "None was false to you."
I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you
At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.