If you’re gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you’ve crossed it first.
I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.
Son, are you happy?
I don’t mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?
It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.
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.
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.
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.
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
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??
You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.
There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If fate doesn’t make you laugh, you just don’t get the joke.
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.
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.
The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.
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.
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.
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.
You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don’t dance
So you might as well
dance.
You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.
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.
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.
One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often.
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.
When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.
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…
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
That’s the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what’s going on.
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won’t be wiser?
If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: “It shines like a little diamond”,
“What does?”
“This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
You don’t ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It’s all about survival; it’s all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in…
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man’s soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.
I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It’s heavy, that lightness. It’s crushing, that emptiness.
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain – This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies –
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
If I had a camera,’ I said, ‘I’d take a picture of you every day. That way I’d remember how you looked every single day of your life.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get.
By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life.
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.