in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
It's easier to be with somebody. But it's better to be single if you're with the wrong person.
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate.
You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.
Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why, thought Milligan, this very moment might be the happiest in me life. The very thought of it made him miserable.
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.