#ife

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is. ↗

— James McGreevey

#deeply #every #hope #into #life

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality. ↗

— James McGreevey

#different #different points #ends #going #grappling

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#back #by the time #come #doing #drive

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#i #life #live #love #mad

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

#back #because #company #days #dollars

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. ↗

— George Sand

#life #love #loved #only #to love

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#arrives #each #his #life #man

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way. ↗

— Donald McKay

#complete #first #got #life #novel

I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward. ↗

— Jim McKay

#assumptions #cute #everyday #everyday life #exciting

You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life's highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups. ↗

— Joy Williams

#life