What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
Crap.
It’s all crap.
Living is crap.
Life has no meaning.
None. Nowhere to be found.
Crap.
Why doesn’t anybody realize this?
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.
You don’t know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can’t know every me, and I can’t know every you.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going.
My story will be over soon. But it’s not something to be sad about. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon
The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.
The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.
It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!
It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?
One always has a better book in one’s mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
It’s such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it’s so completely opposite.
To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.
No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue.
The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you’re glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
I live life without limits and I will go after anything I want with no hesitation.
He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.
By shifting your focus to the princess and treating your life’s challenges like video games, you can trick your brain and actually learn more and see more success.
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
I haven’t lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.
I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them.
I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.
Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.
Do not chase another human being. Instead, chase your curiosity. Chase your development and your goals. Chase your passion. Strive to work for something bigger than yourself, and instead of trying to convince someone that you fit within their world, strive to build your own.
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one’s bridges because you’re never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a
life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This
was a common combination on the planet Earth.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.