When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.
I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.
That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people.
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.
The dearest days in one’s life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
There’s two kinds of women–those you write poems about and those you don’t.
Such is life and life is such and after all it isn’t much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
You better start swimming, or you’ll sink like a stone. Because the Time’s they are a-changing.
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn’t mean that all stories have to, even if that’s what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it’s a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,
and is deprived of the light
of a heart ablaze.
The day on which you are
without passionate love
is the most wasted day of your life.
The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
There’s no advantage to hurrying through life.” -Shikamaru Nara
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us — what happens with the rest?
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.
I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?
It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Only when you accept that one day you’ll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that’s the big secret. That’s the miracle.
I said “Somebody should do something about that.” Then I realized I am somebody.