#life

"I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.."

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."

"Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation."

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

"There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way."

"Animal Species Identity [10w] Funny how animals know their own species without a mirror."

"Pussy Whipped I was pussy whipped with four lashes.It was a helluva threesome ~but I still can't get the damn mascara off my one-eyed snake."

"If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."

"Russian, Metafizicheskiy-poshlost This is the humorous metaphysical banality like watching Tolstoy's wife, Sophia, nag her husband about leaving borscht stains on the table linen. The resulting discombobulation totally messed up the ending of Anna Karenina."

"Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie."

"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."

"Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done."

"My teacher asked my favorite color. ... I said ‘Rainbow’.... and I was punished to stand out of my class."

"John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death."

"Water can be as hard as ice and as soft as fog, which is why my love is so drinkable, because it is fluid and forgiving. It's easy to love until there's nothing left. Eventually, the water runs out, the ice melts, and the fog fades into an abyss.-Jarod Kintz and Karen Quan"

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."

"I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives."