life

"We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day."

"A squeegee is a sponge on a stick, and if there is a tangible item that’s more romantic, I don’t know what it is. Never go on a first date without one."

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."

"My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them."

"But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain."

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

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people."

"How many seconds does it take to win second? As many as it takes to win first—if you don’t use them properly."

"If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life."

"They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that."

"Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not."

"Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity."

"The past can not be cured."

"She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach."

"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got."

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life."

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

"Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?"

"When I lost her I gained the future, because she was my past, and she freed me to become who I was born to be."