life

"As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I’ll pen our love story, if you’ll be my co-author."

"There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability."

"Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)"

"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."

"If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air."

"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."

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

"I drink coffee like steam is the ghost of dead water. Ever tried inhaling the afterlife?"

"Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart."

"لا أخاف الموت ..أخاف أن أموت قبل أن أحيا"

"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life."

"We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don't even know who they are themselves."

"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."

"The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other."

"I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?"

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

"Life itself is the proper binge."

"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."

"All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!"