#life

"Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?"

"We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one."

"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms."

"There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible."The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."

"Suppose that we could close our eyes today and see the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow, we would have never wished to open our eyes again for the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow never ends!"

"What Ever Happened to Stupid? [10w] ‘I’m only human’,has become everybody’s license to fuck up."

"All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless"

"Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex."

"Personal branding is important to me as a person. It’s also important to me as a non-person. I am a rock."

"What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."

"Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed."

"Vengeance, Thy Name is Woman Betrayed women aren't exactly vengeful,but they aren't exactly anything else."

"The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down."

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."

"Nursing Homes [10w] Nursing homes are house haunted by the living and half-dead."

"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole"

"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one."

"Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along."

"Suffering teaches joy."

"Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less."