life

"She’s twelve hours in the future, and exactly half a world away. No matter how hard I try, I will always be a part of her past."

"But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism."

"I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible."

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

"Hide things everywhere. Forget about them. Find them randomly and feel surprised like a pirate finding buried treasure. Avoid scurvy. Love more."

"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."

"I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard."

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

"My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature."

"Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone."

"Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery."

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

"Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more."

"In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability."

"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."

"Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth."

"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."

"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity."

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world."

"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family."