“I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.”
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“Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life.”
“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”
“In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.”
“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”
“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.”
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”
“Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.”
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
“I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.”
“Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.”
“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.”
“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.”
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
“A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.”
“It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
“One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.”