To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.
To be sad or happy about something that time says now is the eternal disease of mankind! Something happened, don’t be sad right away, wait; something happened, don’t be happy right away, wait, wait for what time will say later, because what time will say when the time comes is more important than what time says now, because time can throw away its last word and completely change what it says now!
You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you’ll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.
Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.
It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
Life is so transient and ephemeral; we will not be here after a breath. So think better, think deeply, think with kindness, and write it with love so that it may live a little longer.
Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.
Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.
It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled. Either somebody had really had it in for him or four people had killed him. Or else it was the cleverest suicide I’d ever heard of.
It’s Sanjit. It’s a Hindu name. It means ‘invincible.’That’s great, Lana said.Invincible. I can’t be vinced.That’s not even a word, Lana said.Go ahead: try to vince me, Sanjit said.
He who wrote the script of your life knows exactly how it should play out. Pray and ask Him to reveal every line, so that you can follow it in real time and not waste time.
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the hour of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!
We’re reaching for death on the end of a candle We’re trying for something that’s already found us
Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers).How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around).What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.
Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it
I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, ‘Hey man, I’m reaching my audience everyday. I’m twittering with them. I’m in direct contact with them on the podcast.’
Because saving the people you love isn’t stupid. It isn’t even a choice
Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.
[An excerpt from “My friend, Abigail”]
Stories are like genies…They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do.
Our stories can set us free…When we set them free.
No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can’t you must take them as they are.
Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
The future doesn’t belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don’t know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.
Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue.
Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.
Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.
Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.
The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They’re on the inside of all that. And I… I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.
Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.
Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.
A field is empty, but if you put in the effort to grow something then you will have a garden. And that’s life. Give something, something will come back. Give nothing, nothing will come back. To grow a flower is a miracle: it means you can grow more. Remember that a flower is not just a flower, it is the start of a whole garden.
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.
Under Adverse conditions – some people break down,some break records
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.