life

"I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive."

"Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving."

"For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings."

"Only a fool would say they’re not a fool. Well, I am not a fool, which is why I say I am a fool."

"Life is not an exact science, it is an art."

"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it."

"Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret."

"Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you.They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine of everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire. Love them no matter what."

"Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries."

"I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons."

"The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things."

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

"I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line."

"Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]"

"There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

"The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help."

"Where there is love there is life."

"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do."

"Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain."