life

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

"Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action."

"Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life."

"I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all."

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular."

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."

"You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance."

"When you are measuring life, you are not living it."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."

"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."

"A raisin on the ground is full of hope that if it just keeps aging, it will turn into wine and get drunk on its wrinkly self."

"Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor."

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

"I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?"

"It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on."

"As I grow to understand life less and less,I learn to love it more and more."

"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."

"But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore."

"All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!"