Quotes About Life

We're stuck, all of us, flailing around more or less creatively, washed up more or less conveniently, depending on luck. But stuck nonetheless, epoxied into life and circumstance, and always with limited options. The only question is what we do with those options, how we move forward into the time we have remaining.

And he remembered then where he was, remembered how he'd come to be there, the years it had taken, and last of all he remembered he was old.

The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine. Reality doesn't offer this assurance, so it's very easy to develop the mistaken impression that you're in control. Quellcrest Falconer Ethics on the Precipice

As an artist, I do not need to be rich but I do need to be richly supported. I cannot allow my emotional and intellectual life to stagnate or the work will show it. My life will show it.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order . . . the continuous thread of revelation. EUDORA WELTY

The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

The great acting coach Michael Chekhov advised his students, "If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music—the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. HENRY MILLER

success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that makes our lives. One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. MERLE SHAIN

Writing is a way not only to metabolize life but to alchemize it as well. It is a way to transform what happens to us in our own experience. It is a way to move from passive to active. We may still be the victims of circumstance, but by our understanding those circumstances we place events within the ongoing context of our own life, that is, the life we own.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order . . . the continuous thread of revelation. EUDORA WELT

No matter what your age or your life path… it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realised piece.

The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate— it is life, intensified, brilliant life. ALAIN ARIAS-MISSON

There are sounds to seasons.   There are sounds to places, and there are sounds to every time in one's life. ALISON WYRLEY BIRCH

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

Nada tiene una influencia psicológica más poderosa sobre el entorno y especialmente sobre los hijos que la vida no vivida de los padres». CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Aprendí a quitarme de en medio y a dejar que esa energía vital se expresara a través de mí.

Para vivir una vida creativa debemos perder el miedo a estar equivocados».

La pintura es un intento de asumir la vida. Existen tantas soluciones como seres humanos». GEORGE TOOKER