life

"Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative."

"I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean."

"Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things."

"Instead of sidewalks, why not sideruns? After all, the pace of life is faster than it has ever been, so I think our infrastructure’s nomenclature should reflect that."

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily."

"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year."

"I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way."

"It takes guts to love with gusto. Most people love as if they wish they were invisible, and then they wonder why their affections go unnoticed."

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

"The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people."

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."

"Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?"

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."

"المدينة التي تزدحم فيها الطرقات تزدحم فيها الأفكار وكلّما حلّقت في سماءها طائرة حلّقت أمامها أمنية لتدلّها على الطريق"

"Rise to the occassion which is life!"

"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life."

"The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that."

"But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater."

"Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us."