life

"The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.'"

"My love is expansive. Your love is expensive."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it."

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

"I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me."

"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?"

"I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could."

"When I lost her I gained the future, because she was my past, and she freed me to become who I was born to be."

"One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special,"she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty."

"A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it."

"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty."

"You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life."

"Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?"

"That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!"

"Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life."

"Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life."

"Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing."

"Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great."

"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."