life

"I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers."

"I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth."

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

"No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today."

"You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does."

"Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life."

"Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool."

"You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm."

"Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it."

"All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance."

"My advice to aspiring writers is to read more, write more, and network more. More, more, and more. Then, after you've done all that, do it some more."

"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."

"Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there."

"One butterfly wing reflected wholly in a mirror won’t give flight. Let this be a lesson in love."

"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."

"I meet people to know I’m not alone. I network like an astronaut on the moon."

"आयुष्यात मला भावलेलं एक गुज सांगतो. उपजिविकेसाठीआवश्यक असणाऱ्या विषयाचं शिक्षण जरुर घ्या. पोटापाण्याचा उद्योग जिद्दीनं करा, पण एवढ्यावरच थांबू नका. साहित्य, चित्र, संगीत, नाट्य, शिल्प, खेळ ह्यांतल्या एखाद्या तरी कलेशी मैत्री जमवा. पोटापाण्याचा उद्योग तुम्हाला जगवील, पण कलेशी जमलेली मैत्री तुम्ही का जगायचं हे सांगून जाईल.- पु. ल."

"I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?"

"What is the shape of love? Is it shaped like you? For me it is, but for you maybe it is shaped like me."

"It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too."