life

"She wants to teach me to dance, but how do you instruct water to flow? I'm so fluid all you can do is swim in my moves and drink my essence."

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion."

"Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are."

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

"He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess."

"To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality"of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime."

"We are star stuff harvesting sunlight."

"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."

"What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?"

"The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself."

"Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them."

"I've never been a big nightlife person. I have a pretty low-key life."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."

"The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred."

"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets."

"Wherever there’s a gathering of people, there is networking going on. My favorite place to network is the cemetery."

"If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?"

"People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring."

"You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination."