life

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life."

"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."

"Hanya orang-orang dengan hati damailah yang boleh menerima kejadian buruk dengan lega."

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

"I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to."

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

"If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it."

"Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence."

"For your birthday I got you some batteries. They’re dead, just like you’ll soon be."

"Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one."

"The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born."

"Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair."

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."

"Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"I must be a great leader because many people follow me. Most of the people are police officers, if that gives you any indication of my character."

"I am not my body. My body is nothing without me."

"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."

"Some people try to change the world one life at a time. Others try to change the world one death at a time. And I try to change the world one bucket full of dirt at a time."