life

"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."

"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."

"I am not my body. My body is nothing without me."

"Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful."

"There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself."

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough"

"There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another."

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

"Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?"

"Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man."

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

"To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery."

"The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death."

"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."

"Life itself is the proper binge."

"How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same."

"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."

"He said he wanted to trade lives with me, saying he wanted what I have. He must want for nothing, because that’s exactly what I have."

"I wanted to cry because I needed you there with me so bad. I knew in that moment that I was in love with you. I was in love with the way you loved me. When you wrapped your arms around me and held me, I knew that no matter what happened with my life, you were my home. You stole the biggest piece of my heart that night."