Life

You took life by the horns and tried to hold on tight, for fear of being ripped to shreds, left bloodied and battered.

The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.

Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death, whomever you've had excessive intent of ownership, it will all become painful.

Effectiveness of life is not in self aggrandising.

Sometimes those experiences crowd back upon the memory, and the past flashes back like a distant peak momentarily lighted up by sunbeam piercing through the clouds. Then oblivion again. Strange it is how the prosaic present may hide the exciting past.

Maybe I’d lost something. Maybe I’d lost a lot—more, even, than I could suffer—but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn’t no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

Why, he wondered, was it so hard to see humankind as capable of creating miracles? Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it-second chances when all hope was lost.

She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.

Standing in the shower, I feel something on the back of my leg that turns out to be my ass.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

We're living in a world which gives us no chance to live'.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

Some journeys, we must take alone. The caterpillar does not judge itself for craving the cocoon. Do not fear the isolated path. There, you will not be lonely. You will meet yourself.

Nowadays, you need a good excuse to go and to start talking to someone, as they say it... 'You Found a stranger, now you are in real danger.

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.

It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you.

If you’re to choose to paint your life today... What will it be? Remember, you’re the artist, not the canvas.

I don't have the perfect roadmap drawn out, but I do know which roads I'll never drive down again.