life

"Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought."

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."

"عجيبة هي الحياة بمنطقها المعاكس. أنت تركض خلف الأشياء لاهثاً، فتهرب الأشياء منك. وما تكاد تجلس وتقنع نفسك بأنها لا تستحق كل هذا الركض، حتى تأتيك هي لاهثة. وعندها لا تدري أيجب أن تدير لها ظهرك أم تفتح لها ذراعيك، وتتلقى هذه الهبة التي رمتها السماء إليك، والتي قد تكون فيها سعادتك، أو هلاكك؟"

"I’ve spent a lifetime learning to love—the lifetime of a chameleon. But hey, I’ve learned a lot in the last year, though you couldn’t tell because I camouflage my feelings."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

"Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?"

"No matter how many people believe or don’t believe in you, you must bethe ultimate believer in yourself!"

"I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me."

"Let me just pause a minute and drink in this moment. And if you film it, I’ll be able to get free refills for life."

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

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."

"The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct."

"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."

"There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible."The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."

"Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together."

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

"The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience."

"White letters plus white paper equals invisibility. Just because you can’t see my love for you, doesn’t mean I didn’t write about it."

"There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey."

"I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive."