My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.
I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.
If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.
Everything is possible. Anything is possible at any time and at any time in life. That's such an affirmative kind of feeling.
Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.
We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.
You're in the game of life to fight. If you're in business, and you're not aggressively building, you shouldn't be in.
You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.
I am very disciplined in my life and very up front. It is the only way I can do it and do it well. I am up every day at 7, and I feed my kids, no matter how long the day was.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.
I've always heard that heli-skiing in Alaska is amazing. I would love to be able to do that at some point in my life.
After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life.
I've always known where I wanted to go in life.
Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
My whole life has been decided by fate. I've never planned anything that's happened to me.
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
The times in my life I've felt the most alive is when I'm having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.
I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.
Since childhood, I wanted to become a superhero. When I do anything in real life, I believe that I am a superhero, like in the way I fight, dance, or jump.
In China, it was hard living as a young girl without my family. I had no idea what life was going to be like as a North Korean refugee. But I soon learned it's not only extremely difficult, it's also very dangerous, since North Korean refugees are considered in China as illegal migrants.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.