“Love deep is inexhaustible like a vast ocean.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita
“And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Since I’m a novelist I’m the opposite of you – I believe that what’s most important is what cannot be measured. I’m not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people’s lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.”
— Haruki Murakami
“A child may ask, “What is the world’s story about?” And a grown man or woman may wonder, “What way will the world go? How does it end and, while we’re at it, what’s the story about?”I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and vice were warp and woof of our first consciousness, and they will be the fabric of our last, and this despite any changes we may impose on field and river and mountain, on economy and manners. There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?”
— John Steinbeck
“Life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short, and fragile shot glass. We shouldn’t waste a single drop.”
— Samantha Sotto
“Pride & honor & truth & virtue & kindliness,” he enumerated silkily. “You are right, Scarlett. They aren’t important when a boat is sinking. But look around you at your friends. Either they are bringing their boats ashore safely with cargoes intact or they are content to go down with all flags flying.”
— Margaret Mitchell
“The greatest foe of human is his mighty wisdom.”
— Chandrashekar
“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out…”
— David Bowie
“I don’t compare life to anything. Life can’t be defined or compared, I just know that it dresses itself as a murderer in the end.”
— Griselda Salazar
“we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.”
— Alan Chadwick
“Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your world-cities. But tonight I would like to think of one man, a lone individual, a man without name or country, a man whom I respect because he has absolutely nothing in common with you – MYSELF. Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am.”
— Henry Miller
“One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)”
— Ingmar Bergman
“I see humans but no humanity.”
— Jason Donohue
“What was it Danilov told me before I left? Something about how one day I would stand at a crossroads where I could choose the Light, which illuminated the sky with its warmth and golden glow – or the Darkness, which at first seemed soothing and inviting, but which would consume me in its flames. But do I have to wait for that crossroads? Isn’t it present at every moment of my life?”
— Peter H. Fogtdal
“I dont care if you have the smallest part to do with my life or the largest, I love everyone I’ve ever met, and if you don’t like me i still respect you as a person rather than hate you for what you believe in.”
— Shane Phillips
“Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.”
— Jojo Moyes
“So live your life that those who speak ill of you will not be believed.”
— one of the ancient Greeks I’m on a hunt to find which one.
“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another…”
— Adam Smith
“Some things can’t be explained. They just are. And after a while they disappear, usually forever, or become interesting in another way. Literature’s consolations are always temporary, while life is quick to begin again. It is better not even to look so hard, to leave off explaining. Nothing makes me more queasy than to spend time with people who don’t know that and who can’t forget, and for whom such knowledge isn’t a cornerstone of life.”
— Richard Ford
“The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to notice everything that goes right in a typical life and not the few things that go wrong.”
— Will Schwalbe
“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured… It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
— Jane Austen
“Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility offeelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ….so be A REAL HUMAN BEING.”
— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
“Life will be better when we start to enjoy it”
— Putu Satria Jaya Guna
“Think like a maverick, Fight like a gladiator, Love with a humble heart and Die for a cause worth dying for… Be a “game changer”….The basic tenets of my life philosophy.”
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
“Once you understand life–you understand life’s potential.”
— Sean Baltz
“we are like puppets synchronized by god……..”
— mayank prasad
“…a small stream…sings a carefree song as it runs by your house. It is so nonthreatening that you can sit by it, look at your reflection in the water, and even wash your hands in it. It is yours, your personal stream. Yet you know that it has originated in the sea and is on its way back to where it has come from. When passing by your house, however, it is yours. You can say it is a personal moment you have torn out of eternity to keep in your pocket for yourself.”
— Fatemeh Keshavarz
“You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There’s a lot out there.”
— Junot Díaz
“I was the Titanic and the iceberg all at once.”
— Jeremy Glass
“Don’t allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!”
— Andrew James Pritchard