life

"I'm dying and all I hear are insults!"

"An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are."

"Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained."

"Maybe marriage, like life, isn't only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day—that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond."

"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."

"The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns."

"Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt."

"I realize all guys have thorns. But I am a rose, and she chose a cactus over me. I wish her luck with her dry, desert-like existence with him."

"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life."

"Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night."

"Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others."

"Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward."

"She doesn’t want me to leave, and she doesn’t want me to stay. That’s a double helping of Doesn’t Want Me, and one big I’m Not Hungry back at her."

"Life may not be pretty but it's always beautiful. We may only see the ugliness on the surface. The shit that only the world chooses to notice. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there's no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are and love freely without judgement, it's really beautiful."

"To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility."

"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you."

"Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is."

"You cannot change what you are, only what you do."

"A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal."