“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one… — Robert Brandom Copy Share Image
This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
For me, storytelling is what I love to do and that's my life's work. Football is not my life's work. It's just… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is gained by gathering data, whereas, Wisdom is earned by going through actual… — Master Jin Kwon Copy Share Image
“In this I conformed to my usual manner of thinking in symbols; this because the things of the invisible world attract me… — Ibn al-Arabi Copy Share Image
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true… — William James Copy Share Image
I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“We know how to dream beautifully! And in our dreams we are always extraordinarily active! We cross oceans, found colonies, introduce ideal… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary… — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
Dont ever thing u wont survive widout anyone..those who do dat r very wrong n dnt no beauty of life..coz sum r… — Raveen Copy Share Image
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“The simple fact of the matter is that trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships. Sooner or later, for… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they're all verified as real people - I've… — Katie Featherston Copy Share Image
“My conception of a novel is that it ought to be a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement with the author's… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Next to this central belief which,while I was reading, would be constantly reaching out from my inner self to the outer world,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you start to get bored with your misery, you are on the first rung of recovery and you are beginning to… — Wendy Plump Copy Share Image
“Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down below? Why does she have a… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Stan Lee is like the universal hero. He got every culture together by storytelling. He gave every community their own hero to… — apl.de.ap Copy Share Image
I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my… — Debbie Gibson Copy Share Image
I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
You don't need a perfect body, designer clothes or a Porsche to score a date. All you need is a smile and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events. This deeper discovery… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
