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Life Quotes by Tom Robbins
- When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life…
- If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of…
- The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For…
- I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an…
- My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
- I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.
- The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.
- Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed…
- If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a…
- Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!
- Life is hard if you think it's hard.
- Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the…
- We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
- Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
- Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
- There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
- What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny…
- When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe…
- There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will…
- People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life…
- In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
- Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.
- In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever…
- Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.
- The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle