life

"You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?"

"Don't Worry Be Happy"

"I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear."

"My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else."

"I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person? How did we come to be, and what will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules of this game, and how might we best play it?"

"It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams."

"Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking."

"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."

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."

"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED."

"When tragedy hits close to home, like your neighbor’s house, it really makes you stop and think. And while you’re thinking, I’ll be speeding off in the getaway car."

"All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."

"People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself."

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."