life

"Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed."

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

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation."

"Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future."

"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution."

"Yeah, sometimes life really sucks,"she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck,"she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around."

"I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)"

"It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about."

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

"Life is more fun if you play games."

"Life is all about having a good time."

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control."

"I haven't measured it, but I'll bet cat purrs vibrate at a healing frequency. Also, a whispered I love you almost certainly resonates with heart and DNA repair."

"People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring."

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

"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."