Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don’t know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn’t even be worth reading.
The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that’s exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn’t deserve that LOVE.
The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.
I’m sort of… coming off a bad relationship”
“When did it end?”
“Slightly before it started.
You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.
The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.
Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Son, are you happy?
I don’t mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?
I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.
If you’re gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you’ve crossed it first.
I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.
It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don’t like doing, which is stupid.
I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.
She cracked a smile. “So what’s your poison?”
He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. “Life.”
“Ah,” she said ruefully. “That’ll kill you.
Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don’t make the mistake of thinking that the… cosmos… gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you’ve seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death….you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??
There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.
You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.
The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.
Would you like to know your future?
If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.
So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence — a surprise.
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.
I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.
We’re all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It’s a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it’s true, but then so’s everything.
If fate doesn’t make you laugh, you just don’t get the joke.
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.
The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.
I don’t want to do anything. I don’t even want to start this day because then I’ll just be expected to finish it.
You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don’t dance
So you might as well
dance.
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante’s hell is the inscription: “Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.
In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
If something doesn’t work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don’t just throw it away. Everything can’t be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.
Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we’ve missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.
When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often.
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
YOU FEAR TO DIE?
“It’s not that I don’t want… I mean, I’ve always…it’s just that life is a habit that’s hard to break…
One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.