Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.
When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure.
Art is a way of life.
For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people .
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.
Every month, every week, something new excites me. I'm finding my niche as to what suits me the best. I am a young girl, and if I am just running around in a jeans and a T-shirt, that's a lot of life lost.
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.
A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.
When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.
poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.
As an actor, I feel like youre asked to live life as vibrantly as possible.
My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.
People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.
I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.
One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn't pay electricity.
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.
