life

"Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it."

"How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves."

"The right thing and the easy thing are never the same."

"I'm here at The Container Store looking for something large enough to hold all my love for her. It's a flood, so I hope they sell Shipping Container Ships."

"The only certainty life contains is death."

"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."

"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality"

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."

"Life is too short to blend in."

"See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor."

"There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it."

"All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions"

"Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt."

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."

"You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else."

"Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced."

"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."

"The strands of DNA are like strings, and it’s as if I am a walking guitar, a musical being whose vibration can be heard as love."

"I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life... and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me."

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."