life

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."

"Dreams are necessary to life."

"The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'."

"If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?"

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows."

"It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are."

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."

"I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it."

"No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life could be this sweet! It's got me cheesing from cheek to cheek!"

"Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is."

"Live free or die."

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

"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way."

"Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."

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

"I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue."