life

"I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong."

"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."

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

"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."

"Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."

"The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life."

"Exactly!"said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."

"In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end."

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."

"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom."

"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."

"Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death."

"I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are."

"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

"How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves."