life

"Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor."

"I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.."

"I'm about to get my grind on. My coffee grind. Like a true hustler."

"Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return."

"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."

"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."

"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

"In this lifetime you're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world lives or dies on whether she gets to go out with some good-looking boy at school...I'd still relish this moment...killing you."

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."

"So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness."

"In a well-ordered universe..."

"I wouldn’t feel great if you left me alone, but I wouldn’t feel bad either. I’d feel good, like I always do, which has nothing to do with you, even if you’ll have nothing to do with me."

"Crap.It's all crap.Living is crap.Life has no meaning.None. Nowhere to be found.Crap.Why doesn't anybody realize this?"

"Patience is so valuable I'm willing to wait forever to achieve it. And while I wait, I may as well get busy being short-tempered."