Lift the burden from your shoulders and live—not caught up in someone else's schemes, but as you. That's what you want.
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Quotes tagged ‘Living’
You're in the middle of something wonderful, something so tremendous you may never experience it again. But you can't really understand how wonderful it is. That makes you impatient. And that, in turn, leads to despair.
The longer people live, the more they learn to distinguish what's important from what's not.
Until things happen, they haven't happened. And often things aren't what they seem.
Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.
We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. Our lives are just shadows of that guiding principle. Say the wind blows. It can be a strong, violent wind or a gentle breeze. But eventually every kind of wind dies out and disappears. W…
Weird . . . People are born in order to live, right? But the longer I've lived, the more I've lost what's inside me—and ended up empty. And I bet the longer I live, the emptier, the more worthless, I'll become.
Life's crappy, no matter how you cut it.
All you can see is God and country and you're so busy being a patriot that you forget to be a person.
— Shonda Rhimes, Raamla Mohamed, Olivia Pope, Kerry Washington, imdb.com
Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.
When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.
— Osho, amazon.com
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Are you not aware that our soul is immortal and never perishes?
— Plato, amazon.com
She’s the exclamation mark in the happiest sentence that I could ever possibly write.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.
Something might happen, but then again maybe nothing. I haven't opened it yet, so I don't know. You can't know until you open it.
But if you look at it like that, we're all pretty much empty, don't you think? You eat, take a dump, do your crummy job for your lousy pay, and get laid occasionally, if you're lucky . . . Still you know, interesting things do happen in life.
I knew life was pointless, but I couldn't give up.