I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter.
Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It’s ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.
That’s the point, isn’t it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We’ll win in the end.
If you’re afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?”
Make them stay.”
And if you can’t do that, or don’t know how to?”
Ellie shrugged. “I don’t know.”
Yes, you do. In fact, you’ve done it. You leave first,” Coop said, “so you don’t have to watch them walk away.
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.
Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going
End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
I think it’s important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I’m proud to be a role model!
Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
I had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing him as Gerald.
When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.
Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.
The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness
And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour,
And for me, now as then, it is too much.
There is too much world.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have – to hold on tight until the dawn
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn’t have any.
The vagaries of love with all its unpredictable and capricious meanders may be a hurdle in keeping life on an even keel. Rational thinking and irrational feeling don’t always get along very well. ( “Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.
You didn’t need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some devine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.
I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
Rock ‘n’ roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock’n’roll is dangerous and should piss people off
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.
The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table – it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.
Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world.
(Matthew 5:14, The Message)
One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one’s liking.
It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.