I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.
Colm Toibin
Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
Natalie du Toit
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For... →
J. R. R. Tolkien
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware... →
Michael Tolkin
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from... →
Eckhart Tolle
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.