life

"Don't Worry Be Happy"

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."

"What reading level is the word love? It’s a four-letter word everybody knows the meaning of, but nobody can define it."

"When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way."

"And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing."

"I'll miss looking through the forest–your green and hazel eyes. I love the way they shimmered and changed shade with your mood, and how I could see the desire in your emerald gaze.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"

"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count."

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

"But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore."

"I kissed a mystery, and it tasted like a woman. Lips are always full of delicious secrets."

"Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier."

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

"I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign."

"All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words."

"I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives."

"[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."

"Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world."