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life stories life-is
The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted... Carol Shields
life beautiful struggle
Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes
life strong truthful
What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life. Carlos Castaneda
life people important
I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer. Carlos Castaneda
life years bridges
Burn your bridges every 2 years. Carlos Castaneda
life order dies
One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for Carlos Castaneda
life responsibility desert
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it. Carlos Castaneda
life player games
Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world. C. S. Lewis
life faith creativity
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille
beauty beautiful sake
To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty. Agnes Smedley
beauty art thinking
What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response. Agnes Martin
beauty patience understanding
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. Charlie Chaplin
beauty sadness poet
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels. Charlie Chaplin
beauty accomplishment grace
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of. Charles Dudley Warner
beauty appreciate substance
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate. Charles Caleb Colton
beauty logic
When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart. Toba Beta
beauty muhammad watched
I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him. Sugar Ray Leonard
beauty heaps hopelessly manure sing tried work worker
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. Theodore Bikel
unexpected sometimes lost
Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places. Daniel Handler
unexpected unexpected-places
Love comes from the most unexpected places. Barbra Streisand
unexpected film beats
Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon. David Brooks
unexpected wells one-thing
The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected. Charles Kennedy
unexpected
I was thinking, Why am I doing this, do I really want to go... it was unexpected thing after another, but I made a lot of friends. Jeff Goldblum
unexpected sometimes unexpected-things
Sometimes, unexpected things can happen. Alex Flinn
unexpected plans
One cannot plan for the unexpected. Aaron Klug
unexpected persons beneficial
PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it. Ambrose Bierce
unexpected expected
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected. Alice James