life

"Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us."

"My cup is full of air. I should empty it and fill it with love. Or coffee, as the two are synonymous to me."

"I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy."

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

"Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in."

"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."

"There is nothing perfect...only life."

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."

"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

"It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone."

"We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one."

"You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones"

"When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?"

"Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with."

"Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive."

"You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions."

"I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!"

"The bat is not a toy, it's a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field."

"If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society."