#life

"I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness."

"His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated."

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."

"Louisiana Dynamite Fishin' {10w] "Uncle Jimbo sez, if dey don't float it ain't fishin'."

"Life is nothing but a clump of mud; your thoughts define which statue you can mold out of it."

"New Age Hype Don't 'honor your feelings.'Half the time they're full of shit.Don't 'embrace' anything without a pulse.Mindfulness should include not listening to quacks."

"They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man."

"I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary."

"Poor is the man who thinks money makes him wealthy. Love is the true treasure, and the more you give away, the more you have."

"I'd learned that some things are best kept secret."

"Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse."

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

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

"I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt."

"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."

"Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story."

"Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?"

"Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated."

"I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)"