life

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

"You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does."

"The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go."

"In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories."

"Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table."

"I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart"

"We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one."

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

"Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song."

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it."

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

"I cry, but not for myself. There’s too much sadness in this world to waste a moment with self-pity, when making others smile will also make me smile."

"If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once."

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

"No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today."

"We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating."

"Now I've gone for too longLiving like I'm not aliveSo I'm going to start over tonightBeginning with you and I"

"Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try."

"Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy."