life

"The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires."

"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck"

"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."

"Patience is so valuable I'm willing to wait forever to achieve it. And while I wait, I may as well get busy being short-tempered."

"Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana."

"Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed."

"Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life."

"When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves."

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

"Chocolate says "I'm sorry"so much better than words."

"Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be."

"If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is."

"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."

"Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are."

"Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed."

"I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that."

"There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]"

"You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road."

"This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts."

"I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go."