#life

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it! ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#character #dharma #having #i #into

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. ↗

— Bhagavad Gita

#love #pray #life

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. ↗

— George Eliot

#idea #less #life #more #more or less

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. ↗

— George Eliot

#die #grass #grow #had #hearing

My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live. ↗

— John Edward

#depending #different #different levels #how #levels

We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?" [Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003] ↗

— Susan Sontag

#choices #future #life #past #present

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#alone #beings #build #come #else

Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man. ↗

— Louis C.K.

#comedian #comedy #family #fuck-it #funny

We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened to again and again until it stands for the time itself. But that was about all the scripting that we achieved; the rest, for most of us, was extemporising. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#music #attitude

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor #life #love #marriage #matrimony