life

"It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back."

"It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone."

"I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset."

"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."

"I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite."

"Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people."

"But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope."

"I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do."

"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life."

"I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward."

"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."

"I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack."

"When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps."

"Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life."

"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."

"The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces."

"I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life."

"I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl."

"I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her."

"Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along."