Ian Hornak: My idea...

My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments.
/Ian Hornak/

C. G. Jung: Unfortunately, there...

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it… But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected… No one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
/C. G. Jung/

Gerald G. Jampolsky: When I...

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
/Gerald G. Jampolsky/

Oscar Wilde: Paradoxically though...

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
/Oscar Wilde/

Karl Radek: Life provides...

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
/Karl Radek/

Seneca: A happy...

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
/Seneca/

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Why was...

Why was it that the more advanced a civilization became in conquering sickness, the more expert it became in the destruction of human life? Was there ever a golden age, anywhere, where science was advanced and men were humane? Were the two incompatible some how?
/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor/

George Eliot: The beginning...

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
/George Eliot/

Lynn Redgrave: But I'm...

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.
/Lynn Redgrave/

Samuel Johnson: Almost every...

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.
/Samuel Johnson/

Henry James: If I...

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
/Henry James/

Naomi Campbell: I live...

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
/Naomi Campbell/

Reba McEntire: To succeed...

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
/Reba McEntire/

Roald Dahl: All through...

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
/Roald Dahl/

Miguel de Unamuno: Suffering is...

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
/Miguel de Unamuno/

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: One could...

One could sit still and look at life from the air; that was it. And I was conscious again of the fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. What motion there was took on a slow grace, like slow-motion pictures which catch the moment of outstretched beauty that one cannot see in life itself, so swiftly does it move.<br>And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down to the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.
/Anne Morrow Lindbergh/

William Wordsworth: The little...

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
/William Wordsworth/

Robert Brault: Why try...

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
/Robert Brault/

W. E. Channing: God be...

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
/W. E. Channing/

Daniel Nathans: Small science,...

Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.
/Daniel Nathans/

Eckhart Tolle: Nobody’s life...

Nobody's life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them?<br>The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.
/Eckhart Tolle/

Edie Falco: I was...

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.
/Edie Falco/

Ralph Waldo Emerson: There are...

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Ralph Waldo Emerson: How we...

How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Gustav Mahler: The impressions...

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
/Gustav Mahler/

Tina Yothers: I can't...

I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life.
/Tina Yothers/

Orison Swett Marden: The waste...

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
/Orison Swett Marden/

Judith Olney: Once in...

Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.
/Judith Olney/

Samuel Butler: An empty...

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
/Samuel Butler/

Isabelle Adjani: Life has...

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
/Isabelle Adjani/

Ray Bradbury: When I...

When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.
/Ray Bradbury/