One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
There is only one sin. and that is theft… when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall.
A learning experience is one of those things that says, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.
You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.
Was it hard?” I ask.
Letting go?”
Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn’t real.
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.
Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
Don’t take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.
That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it’s reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
Albus Severus,” Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, “you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I’m not perfect
-and I don’t live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers…
make sure you hands are clean!
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
I’m always happy when I’m surrounded by water, I think I’m a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”
[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]
That’s what literature is. It’s the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say
yes.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?
I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?