life

"It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano."

"For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable."

"I'll miss looking through the forest–your green and hazel eyes. I love the way they shimmered and changed shade with your mood, and how I could see the desire in your emerald gaze.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"

"Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life."

"Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been."

"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."

"The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow."

"I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance."

"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."

"It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty."

"I spoke like a spoke on a wheel, as I went around and around without actually saying what I wanted to say. I was love flustered."

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."

"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can."

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

"But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear."

"الله عادل، لكن الحياة غير عادلة. الحياة ليست مكانًا للعدل، بل لاختبار حسّنا تجاهه"

"This is the strangest life I have ever known."

"No one here gets out alive."