Quotes on Life

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

What is important is that we stop and realize, 'Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that.' But what is really important, what I'm really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.