Messiness Of Life Quotes

#1. The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on all that spills over the boundaries of the usual things, the everyday things with which most people are obsessed, so William has no time for it.

Elliot Perlman

#2. Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

Rod Stryker

#3. I embrace the messiness of life, I find it so beautiful actually.

Brad Pitt

#4. Perhaps the messiness of life makes a nonsense of morality and the simplistic notions of right and wrong upon which 'the law' was founded.

Robert Partridge

#5. Many people who come to spiritual practice are frightened by their feelings. They hope meditation will help them to transcend the messiness of the world and leave them invulnerable to difficult feelings. But this is a false transcendence, a denial of life. It is fear masquerading as wisdom.

Jack Kornfield

#6. Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Richard Baxter

#8. Time drowns in the unmeasured monotony of space. Where uniformity reigns, movement from point to point is no longer movement; and where movement is no longer movement, there is no time.

Thomas Mann

#9. The messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#10. I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

Richard Davidson

#11. True courage is facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.' She

Robin Hobb

#12. Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#13. Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

Eoin Colfer

#14. She had been his lover, his confidant, his nurse when he was ill, and more importantly, his biggest and almost only support system. What she would no longer be was his fool and punching bag. While the blows he delivered to her were not physical, they were indeed emotional. She'd had enough. Noah's

Shontaiye

#15. I'm not entirely certain who arranged to have the lighting in the Rooks' offices and quarters hooked up to the Panic Lines, but it has taught me to flinch violently when a lightbulb ceases to work.

Daniel O'Malley

#16. Come what may, I have been blest.

Lord Byron

#17. If you did not keep your yard in reasonable order, then your whole life would be similarly untidy. A messy yard told Mma Ramotswe everything she needed to know about its owner.

Alexander McCall Smith

#18. One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it.
-Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

#19. She couldn't help thinking of it as life after that, as if Julian were trying to bite into the bloody matter of his life, to cauterize the messiness somehow.

Cassandra Clare

#20. There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Choosing life is always messy.

But it is there in the messiness, in the conflicted and often confused ways we live our lives, that we can learn how much mercy matters to us all.

Mathew N. Schmalz

#22. You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#23. He went down a step and sat with his back against his sweetheart's legs.

She put her notebook on his head.

Anna Gavalda