Looking - Quotes
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.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them!
Life, it`s rather like opening a tin of sardines. We are all of us looking for the key.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that`s what you`re looking for, go live with a car battery.
Death is nothing. I`m not afraid of nothing. But time passing is something different. I`m terrified of time passing. I tremble at the thought of my little girl growing up. I can`t face my son growing stronger than me and helping me up the stairs. I quake at the prospect of looking at my adult children`s faces with eyesight worse than I have now.
I had always been able to gaze in the mirror and see whatever I wanted to see. After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.
Often death takes us before we have had the chance to taste love because when love is right in front of us we were too busy looking for it elsewhere.
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.
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?
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.
You can`t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
You mayn`t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.