life

"I will be stronger than my sadness."

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

"Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either."

"One butterfly wing reflected wholly in a mirror won’t give flight. Let this be a lesson in love."

"Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them."

"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom."

"What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence."

"Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!"

"What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do."

"Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade..."

"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind."

"Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us."

"If I saw a hitchhiker wearing a tie-dyed shirt, I’d assume he’s been waiting for a ride since the 1960s. I think that kind of patience is groovy."

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

"If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough."

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"

"Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living."

"My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound."

"I bear a charmed life."

"How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves."