You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them
Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can’t be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn’t be.
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn’t make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The thing about getting older is that you don’t need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life — you just hang around until you get used to it.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes.
Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.
I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.