life

"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes."

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."

"Lightning doesn’t thunder twice. Let that be a lesson in love."

"Be memorable. Say something unforgettable. Be silent."

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

"Love expands your soul with something inexplicably fulfilling. If you die without ever having experienced it, you will miss life's only true joy"

"It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back."

"I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same."

"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured"

"War is not for winning, Masha,"sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving."

"Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors."

"Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull."

"The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss."

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

"The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do."

"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."

"If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough."

"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."

"Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it."