Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. —Gaston Bachelard More about this quote Tags: life perception children Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody has a personal truth. A personal truth is what you believe about yourself when nobody’s listening and nobody’s watching. —Phillip C. McGraw More about this quote Tags: truth life belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Growth is the only evidence of life. —John Henry Newman More about this quote Tags: life growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: life reading memory aging Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It’s not fair but then much of life isn’t fair. It’s how you live that matters. It’s how you deal with the bumps in the road. —Maya Banks in Echoes at Dawn More about this quote Tags: life coping fairness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair. —Deshimaru More about this quote Tags: life dedication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be on to something. Not to be on to something is to be in despair. —Walker Percy More about this quote Tags: life sadness searching quotidian Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: wonder life prayer veneration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way. —Christopher Morley in Where the Blue Begins More about this quote Tags: life success control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one’s life. So you lose it, you go to your hero’s heaven and everything is milk and honey ’til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That’s not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one’s clichés. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: life risk change approval Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens — but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it’s love and love alone that really matters. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: delusion life reality world security Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: life reality beauty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: life death complexity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you lack the iron and the fuzz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: life power humor gods control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don’t be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: life power control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email