January 31, 2014

Thomas Wolfe: At that...

At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity.
/Thomas Wolfe/

January 30, 2014

Ralph Levy: We have...

We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the holiday is the cleaning of the temple... The accomplishment was in restoring the temple to the purpose for which it was built. Now think of the temple as a symbol. Perhaps it represents my life. The world has tried to use me for its own (perhaps good, but none-the-less extrinsic) purposes. But now I can rededicate myself to my own original purpose.
/Ralph Levy/

January 29, 2014

Susan B. Anthony: Sooner or...

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
/Susan B. Anthony/

January 27, 2014

Archibald MacLeish: It is...

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
/Archibald MacLeish/

Joseph Conrad: Only in...

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
/Joseph Conrad/

January 25, 2014

Rabindranath Tagore: The singer...

The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.
/Rabindranath Tagore/

January 24, 2014

George Bernard Shaw: Life is...

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
/George Bernard Shaw/

January 23, 2014

Henry Reed: We each...

We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.
/Henry Reed/

January 21, 2014

Joni Mitchell: I've looked...

I've looked at life from both sides now<br>From win and lose and still somehow<br>It's life's illusions I recall<br>I really don't know life at all.
/Joni Mitchell/

January 20, 2014

Jessica Hahn: I kind...

I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.
/Jessica Hahn/

January 17, 2014

Jena Malone: There is...

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.
/Jena Malone/

January 13, 2014

Scott Sorrell: Breathe deeply,...

Breathe deeply, as if each breath might be your last. That way, the one time you're right, you'll have a couple of extra seconds to contemplate life's beauty while you exhale.
/Scott Sorrell/

January 12, 2014

Rob Walton: Jesus gives...

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.
/Rob Walton/

Albert Camus: But what...

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
/Albert Camus/

January 10, 2014

George Santayana: A string...

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
/George Santayana/

B. K. S. Iyengar: Yoga, an...

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
/B. K. S. Iyengar/

January 08, 2014

Midge Ure: You think...

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.
/Midge Ure/

January 07, 2014

Alexander Haig: The world...

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.
/Alexander Haig/

Sarah Bernhardt: Life begets...

Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
/Sarah Bernhardt/

James Baldwin: Life is...

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
/James Baldwin/

January 06, 2014

Carl Sandburg: Every blunder...

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
/Carl Sandburg/

January 02, 2014

January 01, 2014

Marquis de Sade: Lust is...

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
/Marquis de Sade/