life

"Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly."

"You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?"

"In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love."

"You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you."

"I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it."

"Reality continues to ruin my life."

"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

"The business of business is people, not products or services. Take care of the people, and the people will take care of you."

"Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure."

"Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward."

"Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?"

"The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps."

"It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away."

"I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

"It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening."

"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

"The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain."

"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."

"There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do."