life

"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."

"If it’s the last kiss, we’d better make it last. I hope you don’t have anywhere to be, because I have the rest of my life free."

"I think I’m mouth blind and that’s why all food tastes bland. The only things that have any flavor are the words I love you."

"The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great."

"Reality continues to ruin my life."

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."

"For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service."

"Your fantasies define you, so dream carefully. A man with no imagination is a man with no future in today’s world—and no past in tomorrow’s."

"Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker."

"Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes."

"That's life for you,"said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more."

"You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved."

"I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile."

"I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity."

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches."

"There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult."

"They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing."