Life Quotes

He pulled me close and said, Katie, don't leave me, you're my breath, I refuse to live without you.It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard, but I still walked away, because my name is Anne Marie.

~ J.a. Anum

I tasted danger on his lips and became an addict.A slave to adrenaline and irrational behaviour.We lived recklessly in a dramatic whirl;Clubbing and Cutting,Drinking and Driving,Fighting and Fucking,Smoking and Snorting,Overdoing and Overdosing. I tasted danger on his lips and lost my way.

~ J.a. Anum

There's something about her.It's not her smile or grace,It's not her beauty or race,It's not her scent or warm embrace,Maybe it's her laugh or the shape of her face.No, that's not the case.It's just her.

~ J.a. Anum

Reading a stranger's words and finding yourself in them.

~ Jenim Dibie

Most of the poems I write take 5 minutes, but the words can give a lifetime of relief. Many people that have read my book say it helped them with their grief.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

2.07 WALK OF LIFELife but like a cycle that you be riding,You will fall if you ever stop peddling,Life not of good cards you be holding,But those held and how you be playing.[68] - 4

~ Munindra Misra

The intention (of an artist) is (the same as a scientist)...to discover and reveal what is unsuspected but significant in life.

~ H W Leggett

You are the artist, and your days the canvas. Will you create an original masterpiece, or live a paint-by-numbers kind of life?

~ John Mark Green

And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire.

~ Patti Smith

If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he who express himself by words or drawing then I can consider myself as one.

~ Amen Muffler

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

~ Henri Matisse

I didn't do music to live, I lived so that I could do music.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, I AM HERE... To whom?.. To where?... Where am I going to...?

~ Hiroko Sakai

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

~ Hiroko Sakai

my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far better to live this gambling life than living in boring average ...they at least make my art more interesting

~ Hiroko Sakai

They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.

~ Rana Dasgupta

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

~ James C. Scott

It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself.

~ James C. Scott

Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing that money and starting over somewhere else. That was a fact of factory life you couldn't know from the outside: Getting into a factory was easy. The hard part was getting out.

~ Leslie T. Chang

Empowerment is the ability to refine, improve, and enhance your life without co-dependency.

~ Steve Maraboli

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

~ Terence Mckenna

Disability is not what we see or appear, it is all about not doing what one really wanted to do...

~ Seal The Smile

Without their uniforms, they were probably nobodies, rejects. Give a man a uniform. Give him a few sparkly badges, a purpose, a gun ... and suddenly, he was no longer just another kid trying to make it through life without being ridiculed. Suddenly, he was a part of something. Something important. Something powerful. Something greater than he could ever be on his own. It was amazing how empowering the group could be.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Never limit yourself to what you can't do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have.

~ Nadège Richards

Everything you want in life is just one step away, all you have to do is decide in which direction to step.

~ Unknoown

Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.

~ Mitch Albom

We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten. But 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them. But you cannot kiss an idea... cannot touch it or hold it.Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss. It is a man.A man that made me remember the 5th of November. A man that I will never forget.

~ Alan Moore

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

~ Robert Greene

A philosophy must be livable, it can't just be ideas.

~ Marty Rubin

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

~ Chris Prentiss

You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal, you tune in different frequencies.

~ Chris Prentiss

Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang in the air like silk puppets. Sometimes I think I see my own ideas, floating around too, but they usually don't last that long. They're more like mayflies; they're born, big and gleaming, and then they fly around, buzzing like crazy before they fall to the floor, dead, about twenty four hours later.

~ Scarlett Thomas

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?

~ Aldous Huxley

Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.

~ Marty Rubin

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

~ Henry David Thoreau

I made the money, I did not let money make me.

~ Hisham Fawzi

Life is a precious gift, but we realize this only when we are in the end. Change it.

~ Ronald Peret

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

~ Jaron Lanier