life

"Networking isn’t synonymous with partying. If you’re doing it right, partying seems libraryesque in comparison."

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."

"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."

"In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps."

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."

"I’m not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I’m willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That’s just the kind of hard worker I am."

"I will make up a crush, you hear me?! I will look at a guy and say, for two months at least, 'I think you're cute.' And then I can be psycho. I will go in my head and make a whole life with him, he don't even understand why I'm mad at him. I'm like... 'cause you came in late last night!' And he's like, 'I don't even know you.'"

"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."

"[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever."

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

"I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance."

"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."

"You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought."

"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."

"Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."

"I like coffee tables. I’m into drinkable furniture."

"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give."

"Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is."