Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next? Karen Thompson Walker attentionfearfocus Change image and share on social
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. Peace Pilgrim alignmentattainbegin share on social
'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.' Jerome Charyn bookcormacdoom share on social
I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important. Natalie Portman cinemaimportantlife Change image and share on social
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults. Natalie Portman acceptadulthard Change image and share on social
I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about. Sanford I. Weill achievebitecompetition share on social
If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. Maurice Sendak adultannechild share on social
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. Henrik Ibsen godindividualizelife Change image and share on social
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish. Graham Taylor bowlgoldfishidea Change image and share on social
I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. Muhammad Yunus absencebasicbeing share on social
