life

"I'll miss looking through the forest–your green and hazel eyes. I love the way they shimmered and changed shade with your mood, and how I could see the desire in your emerald gaze.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."

"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

"I network like a salmon in a bear costume. Why swim upstream when the honeybee has all the flowers? Is anything more romantic than roses on a grave?"

"Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized."

"Some things take so longBut how do I explainWhen not too many peopleCan see we're all the sameAnd because of all their tearsYour eyes can't hope to seeThe beauty that surrounds themNow, isn't it a pity"

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

"I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future."

"A follow-up letter is best when not written on the back of a suicide note. Remember this next time you’re at a networking event, unless your new connection is a mortician."

"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"

"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life."

"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

"Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in."

"No man is a failure who is enjoying life."

"The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life."

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."

"This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays."