life

"She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war."

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."

"If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like."

"May you live every day of your life."

"If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day."

"Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet."

"Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own."

"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

"Find a voice in a whisper."

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

"We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means."

"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it."

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

"If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird... 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so... if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion."

"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."

"Sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order."

"It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention."

"She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted."

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"