Wallace Stevens Quotes

I don't believe that you have a work life and a home life. I believe that you have one life, and either it's working or it isn't working.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

I know that balance that I need to have in my life.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.

Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

If you correct your mind the rest of your life will fall into place.

Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.