I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.
There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.
Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.
If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.
I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.
And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?
I did everything religion told me to do for a long time only to end up frustrated, beat down and jaded. I couldn't keep up. No matter how hard I tried, it was never enough. So I decided to quit. And I did.
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.
It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.
I've lived in L.A. for a long time, and they say, 'If you sit in a barber's shop for long enough, you will get a hair cut.' Well, if you live in Los Angeles for long enough, you're going to get some surgery.
Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.