Life

A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

It is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Don’t work too hard. Fool around a bit. Be lazy. Don’t worry, Life is —forever.

Darling, this is the trap: BELIEVE YOU ARE GOOD WHEN THEY TELL YOU YOU ARE GOOD AND YOU ARE THEREBY DEAD, DEAD, DEAD. Dead forever. Art is a day by day game of living and dying and if you live a little more than you die you are going to continue to create some pretty fair stuff, but if you die a little more than you live, you know the answer .

The most solid advice … for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Be in love with yr life Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind Blow as deep as you want to blow Write what you want bottomless from the bottom of the mind Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition Write in recollection and amazement for yourself

Stick to Zen. Fuck the work .

It’s a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Better not to exist than live basely.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

No man is happy, he is at best fortunate.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Life must be lived as play.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.