Quotes on Life

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.

I have been a designer all my life, and design, for me, is to share love and trust and show the future in a beautiful way. I have worked on this principle all my life.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.

Throughout my life, my prayers have actively sustained me - held me up, carried me through.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you.

In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.