“When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it.” ThinkingYearsHumansLittlesCharacterSongHumanityHouseBitsPerfectOur LivesLittle BitRelationRelateHuman RelationsNudge Author:Corey Taylor
“What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.” UseLife IsGivenOur LivesRelationCharityCharitable Author:Francis Atterbury
“When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves.” WayMatterBodySufferingRealizingOur LivesRelationDelving Author:Tatsumi Hijikata
“Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.” LifeSoulPlayUseDreamRealitySpiritualLife IsGamesOur LivesDutyRelationNobleSelfishSensesFlyingTrialsWornToilInsignificantWorn OutAscensionWeavers Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about this word aware, which on the page looks like "aware," which speaks to both the pain and the beauty of our lives. Being there, what I perceived was that this is a sorrow that is not a grief that one forgets or recovers from, but it is a burning, searing illumination of love for the delicacy and strength of our relations.” LooksPainSpeakForgetGriefTalkingOur LivesSorrowPagesRelationBurningFascinatingParadoxIlluminationBeing ThereAccommodateDelicacyHiroshima Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us” HelpingLife IsOur LivesTalentCircumstancesRelationLinear Author:Ken Robinson
“In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because I think he misdescribes the importance of the deaths of others and focuses exclusively on my relation to my own death. But, in reality, the deaths of others have a more urgent and immediate impact on our lives than the purely notional knowledge that I too will one day die.” ThinkingRealityDiesTermMy OwnFocusOur LivesOne DayArgumentImportanceRelationRegardImpactUrgentHeidegger Author:George Pattison
“It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets us see that our lives have always been more complex than traditional categories allow. So, I think, you know, maybe the introduction of new words permits us to rethink what we've taken for granted about what forms bodies take, what the name is for certain kinds of sexual, intimate relations, how we think of a life.” ThinkingKnowsKindBodyRealityFormCertainNamesTakenOur LivesRelationComplexesTraditionalBrandsGrantedIntimateCategoriesPermitVocabularyIntroductionBrand NewTaken For GrantedNew Words Author:Judith Butler
“Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves.” FormPoliticalExistenceOur LivesEconomicSubjectsEssenceFunctionRelationIdeologyCrucialPermissionBlindnessProhibitionDensityDeafness Author:Michel Foucault
“A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives--all bear secret relations to our destinies.” YearsCharacterLightFallHoursSecretMoralDestinySunOur LivesGrowingFlowerBearsBecomingSceneIllusionRiversRelationCloudsAffectionAutumnFrozenFleetingOur DestinyFadingMoral Character Author:François-René de Chateaubriand
“What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with it. The other attitude which is the one our society is based on is devastating and it is killing the earth and it is killing us too.” BelieveWholeFeelingsEarthLife IsAttitudeOur LivesRelationKillingContemplationHopefulOur SocietyReverence Author:W. S. Merwin