Looking - Quotes
The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it`s like looking down into the grave of your love, or kissing the mouth of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, ready to blow your head off.
If you live to be eighty, you’ll have slept thirty years away, gone to school and sat with homework for nine, and worked for almost fourteen. Since you’ve already spent more than six years being little kids and playing, and you’re later going to be spending at least twelve cleaning house, cooking food, and looking after your own kids, it means you’ve got nine years at most to live.
Purchasing a package vacation to find a simpler life is kind of like using a mirror to see what you look like when you aren`t looking into the mirror.
You mayn`t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could have never foreseen.
You can`t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Now that I am a mother, I understand what Mother's Day is about: it's about looking through our lives and recognizing the act of mothering everywhere we see it, and more than that, recognizing that when any of us mother - when we listen, nuture, nourish, protect - we're doing sacred work.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them!
For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?
Life, it`s rather like opening a tin of sardines. We are all of us looking for the key.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.