She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.
I believe the stars align so souls can find one another. Whether they are meant to be souls in love or souls in life remains to be seen.
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.
I broke something, Old Man.
How badly is it broken?
It’s in a million little pieces.
I’m afraid I can’t help you.
Why?
There’s nothing you can do.
Why?
It can’t be fixed.
Why?
It’s broken beyond repair. It’s in a million little pieces.
All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? – I don’t know.
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.
You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have the speed.
You’ll pass the whole gang and you’ll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you’ll be best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don’t.
Because, sometimes, you won’t.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you’re alive it isn’t.
That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality
Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it’s some big scary thing, but it’s the familiar that’s always bothered me. It’s heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it’s walls and a ceiling and a cell.
It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need
The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window–is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.
I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
There are things you can’t walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
Accidents don’t happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can’t change their minds.
The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.
You’ll forget it when you’re dead, and so will I. When I’m dead, I’m going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.
Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains… If only one could leave this life slowly!
Exactly!” said Deep Thought. “So once you do know what the question actually is, you’ll know what the answer means.
We’re not words, Henry, we’re people.
Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.
What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?
You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.
Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.
Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn’t seem fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define.
Normally, in anything I do, I’m fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
The connections we make in the course of a life–maybe that’s what heaven is.
She felt… how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.
People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It’s that hard.
You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.
Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven.
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.
You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)
You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. but mostly they’re darked.
But mostly they’re darked.
A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin!
Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?
How much can you lose? How much can you win?
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn’t yours. But grief comes from losing something you’ve already had.