Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
I don't need much of a character in my life. I've already got one; my family knows who I am, and I don't have a reason to make an impression on the world around me unless it's in a professional context. Acting is not a personal experience; it's a job.
My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.
The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.
I mean, I couldn't ask for a better life, man.
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
I write larger than life. It's what I do.
I used to be smaller than I am now, and it didn't make my life any easier. It's not really about your body. It's about what's going on inside, in your head and your heart.
For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?
Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.
The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it's lived has a far more complex shape.
I want to be able to still surprise myself, even shock myself, whether it be sexual content, whether it be about the theological content, whatever. I want to be able to knock myself sideways. Otherwise, what a waste of a life that would be.
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
I honestly in a lot of ways don't want to sing about my real life, because that's private.
