Quotes on Life

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of a father for a child, not the love of God for his creatures, but a love with no name and no explanation, like a river that cannot explain why it follows a particular course, but simply flows onwards. A love that asks for nothing and gives nothing in return; it is simply there. I will never be yours and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters?

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.