But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn’t for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.
So go out and live real good and I promise you’ll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you’re dead, you’ll be rotted away anyway. It’s not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn’t live.
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God?
Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.
When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we’ve downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.
I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can’t remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.
…and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, ‘That was fine’. And your life is a long line of fine.
I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it–and that’s all I got.
How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.
That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin.
And this was her penance.
Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.
Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.
The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.
I will never deny that life isn’t fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.
Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.
Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.
Maybe that’s what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.
Both my parents were Democrats. My dad was definitely more of a fiscally conservative traditional Democrat. My mom was more of a feminist Camelot Democrat. They definitely had an idealistic view of life as it should be in the United States. And they had a sense that government had to have some hand in making people’s lives better.
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like.
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn’t a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you worked like hell to get out the other side still intact.
Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would not be.
Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Sometimes it’s better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn’t clear cut, there are always gray areas.
What about the rest of your life?”
She shrugged. “What about it?”
“Aren’t you worried about, like, forever?”
“Forever is composed of nows,” she says.
You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.
The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.
People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That’s what makes us humans.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.