life

"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."

"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

"I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world."

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."

"People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring."

"Going back to something is harder than you think."

"Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."

"That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on."

"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."

"Stairs, are they going up or are they going down? They’re so confusing! If love were a physical thing, it would be stairs."

"I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance."

"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place."

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."

"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion."

"The business of business is people, not products or services. Take care of the people, and the people will take care of you."

"if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?."

"If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

"In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive."

"I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this."