Quotes on Life

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

I like being with people. I like talking to them. I like everything about my life, so it's fun.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.

I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.