life

"If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first."

"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

"Behold, the number five is at hand. Grab it and shake and harness the power of networking."

"There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet."

"For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

"If I offer you a glass of water, and bring back a cup of ice, I’m trying to teach you patience. And also that sometimes you get ice with no water, and later you’ll get water with no ice. Ah, but that’s life, no?"

"He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival."

"It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin."

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

"Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something."

"Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try."

"Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions."

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

"Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it."

"I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing."

"I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything."

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

"I am a fisherman among farmers, and as a farmer what I grow is tired of waiting for her to love me."