Leon Russell Quotes

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

In your life, you go through a difficult situation or a very good situation, and you have different moods, but you learn things from your experiences.

As you get older, life gets more complicated.

I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we've had and lived.

My career has been the best part of 50 years. If I had to go through it all again, I'd love to, warts and all. There have been so many good things that they outweigh the bad. But I do have regrets.

Like Ivan [Reitman] has said, there's a lot that a life encompasses.

In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons

Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.

... we are the products of our past. ... a web of complexities.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.

We're all human and life is complicated.

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.