All Quotes By Tag: Life

“Yeah, sometimes life really sucks,” she says. “But you know what I’m holding on for?”I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me.”The moments that don’t suck,” she says. “The trick is to notice them when they come around.”

“When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.”

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”

“Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without itTo do a dangerous thing with style is what I call artBullfighting can be an artBoxing can be an artLoving can be an artOpening a can of sardines can be an artNot many have styleNot many can keep styleI have seen dogs with more style than men,although not many dogs have style.Cats have it with abundance.When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,that was style.Or sometimes people give you styleJoan of Arc had styleJohn the BaptistJesusSocratesCaesarGarcía Lorca.I have met men in jail with style.I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.”

“Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me.”

“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”

“How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others”

“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”

“There’s gon’ be some stuff you gon’ seethat’s gon’ make it hard to smile in the future.But through whatever you see,through all the rain and the pain,you gotta keep your sense of humor.You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.Remember that.”

“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”

“Discipline Your Mind to Think Positively: Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.”

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

“How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.”