life

"My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work."

"Keep your friends close but your enemies closer."

"Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame."

"I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life."

"You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved."

"The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization."

"Not my daughter, you bitch!"

"This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."

"It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening."

"Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury."

"When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin.And this was her penance.Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead."

"Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not."

"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

"I think people should have fun. And don't get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best person you can be."