quotes about Faith And Family

“I live alone, so I dont really talk to anyone once Im home. I have some silent nights.”

“More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress”

“They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.”

“Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.”

“I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I’ve put it all down, every bit from the heart. I’m going out on a limb here, so watch my back.”

Source : "Billy Idol: The Story of My Drug-Fueled Recording of 'Dancing with Myself'" by Billy Idol, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2014.

“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.”

“Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose.”

Source : "Words to Live by: Hiroo Onoda". Interview with Judit Kawaguchi, www.japantimes.co.jp. January 16, 2007.

“It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.”

“True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.”

“Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it...”