“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
~ Elie Wiesel
life
To Be A Philosopher
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
“Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don’t look for anything else.” ~Bertrand Russell
“We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.” ~ Patti Smith
“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.” ~ Baz Luhrmann*
*Film director
The Greatest Adventure
“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.”
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. ~Jacques Yves Cousteau
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth
“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.” ~Louisa May Alcott
Nothing In Nature
“Nothing in nature is by chance… Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.”
~ Baruch Spinoza
Be Who You Are
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.”
~ Rita Mae Brown
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify. ~Henry David Thoreau
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. ~ Rose Kennedy
Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try. ~Fran Lebowitz
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~Anais Nin
Talk about a dream, try to make it real. ~Bruce Springsteen
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ~William James
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~William James
Life Is The Fire …..
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternty.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life Is Hard
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
Sydney J. Harris
Human Nature
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
~ Dale Carnegie
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. ~Robert McKee
Similar But Different
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
Margaret Atwood
For What Its Worth
With the current situation going on, all we can do is it live it one day at a time.
Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. ~Jim Henson
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ~Soren Kierkegaard
Its Surely Not The Same
Since COVID-19 has made its presence, it has changed the ways of life. When I go outside to take my walks, there seems to be very few, if that doing the same thing. Also, not that many cars are seen. Its so surreal, its like living in the Twilight Zone.
For What Its Worth
With the COVID-19 virus affecting our way of living, can we now call it “The New Normal?”
For What Its Worth
We could all use a time out, from the seemingly, neverending media barrage of the Coronavirus.
So far, I have been going about the days, and not getting myself all worked up about it.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ~Albert Einstein
City Life
I’m impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
Michael Douglas
Backpack
So I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feels like I’m standing next to my real life.
Henry Rollins
When It’s Time
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
~ Jimi Hendrix
Enjoy The Day
“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”
~ Horace
No such thing
“No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.”
~ Henry Rollins
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. ~Sheryl Sandberg
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. ~Miles Davis
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ~Anthony Burgess
Tis’ better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly. ~Elizabeth Gilbert
Conquering Some Fear
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fill Your Life Up With Ideas
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin”
Uninteresting Life
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
~Mark Twain
Enjoy Life
Quote Source: Quote Master
Water And Life
Quote Source: Quote Master
Life is …..
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
~Albert Einstein
Life
life it is what it is: life
The two most important days in your life are the you were born and the day you find why. ~Mark Twain
One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. ~Aldous Huxley
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey, 1932 – 2012, Author
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~Mark Twain
If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell. ~David Cook
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press
“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn’t painting be too?” ~ Edgar Degas
Thoughts From A Tired Mind
hot searing sun
broiling the desert
not a house
or any building
to be seen
for as far
as the eye can see
carcasses of long
ago dead animals
litter the ground
rattle snakes hissing
scorpions and black
widows crawling
seeking to bite
and deposit their
deadly venom
no water to be found
not an ideal place
to spend time in
such is life
in the desert
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~Simone Weil
Traveling Is Like Flirting
“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, Novelist
As soon as there is life there is danger. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
And
the month
of August
is now in
the home
stretch
and life
goes on
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~ Simone Weil*
*French philosopher, 1909-1943
Short, Short Story
Mr Positive debates Mr Negative. Egos clash. Neither comes out a winner. Both egos deflated.
Music ~ Albert Einstein
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
~ Albert Einstein
Me
I am me
always will be me
no one will
ever change me
as I was born
as me
so
the end result
is a total me
and
I am happy
to be me
One Liner
All ye caffeine junkies, drink up, and get wired.
Six Word Story
Chasing the American dream. Its elusive.
Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. ~ Sam Cawthorn
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours in watching television. ~ David Letterman
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. ~ Stephen King
Joseph Addison Quote
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”
~ Joseph Addison, Essayist 1672 – 1719
Be who you are. ~ Rita Mae Brown
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.”
~ Rita Mae Brown. Writer – B: November 28, 1944
May 14
Today, May 14
makes it
one full
year, that
I quit
smoking,
and I don’t
miss it.
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. ~ Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison (1943 – 1971), No One Hear Gets Out Alive
I like life. It’s something to do. ~ Ronnie Shakes
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. ~ Dan Rather
Life and death matters, yes. ~ Raymond Carver
“Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.”
~ Raymond Carver, Writer – (1938-1988)
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~ John Dewey
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. ~ Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem, leading Yiddish author and playwright. 1859-1916
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. ~ Thornton Wilder
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” ~ Rose Kennedy
B. July 22, 1890 – D. January 22, 1995
Life is consciousness. ~ Emmet Fox
Enthusiast In Life ~ Roald Dahl
“You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ~ Albert Camus
Jack Kerouac Quote: Life
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
~ Jack Kerouac
A Note About Me
There are some things in life I do not care to talk about, and that is religion. I am not religious, and i haven’t been for quite a long time. I don’t like it, when certain people try to talk about it, and when they do, I walk away.
Also, there are religious bloggers who have started following my blog. Fine. But don’t expect me to follow you. It’s not going to happen.
There is one religion I will read, and that is Buddhism, I keep that to myself, and it makes me a happy person.
Life ~ Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
-Isaac Asimov
One Big Road ~ Bob Marley
Matsuo Basho Quote
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
~Matsuo Basho
Age
Life Quote
Quote: Soren Kierkegaard ~ Life
Fixation
Quote: Hermann Hesse
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
~Hermann Hesse
Bored Solitude ~ Jack Kerouac
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength”
– Jack Kerouac
Life Is Short ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
One Sentence Fiction
She’s savoring the all around beauty, of the numerous wild flowers.
One Sentence Fiction
She lives in a household full of mad, whacked-out people.
Six Word Story
Living the life of a nomad.
The Four Conditions of Happiness ~ Albert Camus
“The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation” ~Albert Camus
