Life isn’t always black and white. You’re not always sure you’re right. At least I’m not.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
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.
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.
But love is complicated, it’s messy. It can inspire selflessness, selfishness, our greatest accomplishments and our hardest mistakes. It brings us together and it can just as easily drive us apart.
Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people’s lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
Even in a world with much sadness, at its essence, life is beautiful.
You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved.
My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.
Life is about perspective and how you look at something… ultimately, you have to zoom out.
My whole life is about winning. I don’t lose often. I almost never lose.
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you’re told and didn’t try to understand things.
What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?…Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can’t plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don’t happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.
It’s okay. We aren’t in the same class. Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal – you have a wish.
No, darling! To die it’s easy… But you have to stuggle for life!
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be.
We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane’s heart always break.
I think about my sister, Becca, a lot. We didn’t always agree about things, but she was always there for me when I needed her. I thought she would outlive me, that she would always be here.
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up…. and handle it.
No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.
If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye…until we meet again
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Life’s so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with the tide.
People are supposed to care. It’s good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they’re gone.