life

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."

"In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons."

"What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?"

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

"I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows."

"I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat."

"I think there is a part of life that I'm missing."

"I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself."

"We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art."

"To say goodbye is to die a little."

"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside."

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."

"If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

"Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return."

"The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection."

"In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure."

"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."