Life Manifesto Quotes

If you can't do it, don't pledge to do it. Don't be a liar; say only what you can do. It's better for you to have a "single sentence" manifesto about your life which is fulfilled than to have 25 chapters' theories about your visions that remain undone! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

An Artist is one who does not chase Money! ~ Avijeet Das

It is in this sense that Nietzsche is driven, against many explicit resolutions to the contrary, to be a No-sayer. For what the décadents who surround him are doing is to say No where they should be saying Yes, where they should be Dionysian; and what is leading them to this life-denying perversity, mostly of course unconsciously, is that they subscribe to a set of values that puts the central features of *this* world at a discount. Where they find suffering, they immediately look for someone to blame, and end up hating themselves, or generalize that into a hatred of "human nature". They look for "peace of mind", using it as a blanket term and failing to see the diversity of states, some of them desirable and some of them the reverse, which that term covers. They confuse cause and effect, thinking that the connection between virtue and happiness is that the former leads to the latter, whereas in fact the reverse is the case. They have, in Nietzsche's cruelly accurate phrase, "the vulgar ambition to possess generous feelings" ("Expeditions of an Untimely Man, number 6). They confuse breeding fine men with taming them. Throughout the major part of Twilight this devastating list of our vulgarities continues. ~ Michael Tanner

I'm too caught up in this ... pretend life I'm so completely submersed in. And you know what? I like it. I love it. Even though I know deep down inside, it's fake. That the way you talk to me, look at me, touch me. Kiss me ... is all for show. I'm some sort of protection for you but I don't care. I want it.
I want you. ~ Monica Murphy

Looking out at the lake, drinking good tea. That's his only luxury.
And what an enormous luxury that was. ~ Banana Yoshimoto

I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life. ~ Deb Caletti

We don't have to know everything. If you believe in fate and some kind of meaning and sense in this fucked-up world, then believe with abandon, love. Enjoy it. ~ Jessica Park

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface. ~ Robertson Davies

It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come. ~ Alice Walker

The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it. ~ Marisha Pessl

Life is enough grace. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In order to flourish in gardens of existence,
We must live our life with love and persistence."
~James Lagoski~ ~ James Lagoski

When you have your first virgin orgasm it's like seeing a mirror reflecting all the good things life has in store. ~ Chloe Thurlow

When creativity is seen as more important than facts, we will find ourselves in a world where problems are solved more often than spoken of. ~ Tarryn Tomlinson

The nature of a breakthrough is for you to stand on what you've gotten, what you've loved, what's been important to you, what's touched you, what's inspired you, what's turned your life on; to stand on the value you've already created for yourself and look out at the possibility for being alive that opens up, like a freedom, in front of you. ~ Werner Erhard

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true. ~ Steven Yeun

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world. ~ Cormac McCarthy

This morning after yoga, I laid in the grass and watched the white clouds go by as the Earth turned slowly, and it was the single most beautiful thing, that I started to cry. ~ Erika B.

Failure is our best teacher but fear of failure is our worst enemy. ~ Debasish Mridha

To be involved in the seven spheres of life is to extend kingdom virtues ~ Sunday Adelaja

Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.
I am old.
Walter ~ Barbara Wersba

I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life. ~ Yoko Ono

It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don't know, and it is not our place to judge. ~ Sharon Gannon

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being. ~ Sigmund Freud

A bourbon a day keeps the doctor away. Actually, that might be understating it: whiskey can save your life. And it might be healthier to drink three a day than one a day. No, really. ~ Jeff Wilser

This is your life. Be bold with it. Live it with energy and purpose in the direction that excites you. Listen to your heart, look for your dreams: they are God-inspired. ~ Bear Grylls

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? ~ Steve Jobs

In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America. ~ Andrew Tobias

A lot of existential questions will be answered just after the "Fuck." As in life itself. ~ Don Winslow

The way you get meaning into life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. (43) ~ Mitch Albom

It was one of those youthful promises that you make to yourself and keep long after you stop recognizing what you are doing, or how it is distorting your life. ~ Adam Haslett

You're so beautiful, Anthony." A press of lips to Anthony's collarbone. "So handsome." A kiss on the point of his pulse. "So...everything." Anthony had never felt more cherished in all his life. I've found him. The knowledge sank into his bones. He had found the one. ~ Ava March

When the right one comes along, Jet, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you. I would be half the man I am without Shaw. She makes me better, she makes me happy, and I can see that Ayden does that for you, too."
Rule-Jet A Marked Men Novel ~ Jay Crownover