It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?
I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive.
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Art is long and life is short.
So long as this struggle known as life goes on, there will always be the music to fit the mood and make it better.
Life is not about how long you live or how much you experience. Life is about how you choose to live it and what you experience.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.
Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.
I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.
Life is too short to have even few enemies and too long not to have one more friend!
I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes me shaky, fickle, inquisitive, and hungry. I could call it a longing for home and not be far wrong. Or I could call it a longing for whatever supers...
But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea that there was someone out there for me; someone I hadn't met yet who would ask me on a date and make sense of my life. I harbored the hope, I'm now e...
Heartbreak is awful, but truth be told, if you have never had your heart broken, then you aren't fully living. I want you to ask yourself this question because I want you to bask in the fullness of life. And in order to feel life - to experience life...
I have to certainly stand for life. I know that there are some who disagree, and I respect their point of view. But I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have to have on abortion is in that case - of the life of the mother. I...
As long as there's life, there's hope.
The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.