life

"Apparently I’m transparent—with my feelings, not with my body. I’m an emotional ghost, and if you can’t see my love for you it’s because it’s dead."

"Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else."

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."

"It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men."

"Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted."

"Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming."

"Life is just a journey."

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

"That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox."

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."

"Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important."

"A chance meeting in a Kansas City coffee shop may take me months of planning and twice a day visits for over a year. But I already have my stunned, surprised, and shocked speech rehearsed for the moment I act like I had no idea she would be there."

"That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable."

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

"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."

"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves."

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."

"If you fear rejection, you won’t embrace acceptance. But don’t push yourself onto others, because they won’t pull you close."

"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."