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."

"In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become."

"Either I will love you, or I will love you if and only if you love me in return. I prefer the former."

"Kalau ada kupu-kupu yang terperangkap di sarang laba-laba, orang cenderung akan menolong kupu-kupu itu walaupun mungkin si laba-laba belum makan selama berhari-hari..Tapi gimana kalau yang terperangkap adalah ulat yang belum jadi kupu-kupu? Orang tetap nolong nggak? Padahal, keduanya sama. Di dunia ini, memang harus cantik supaya ditolong."

"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life."

"Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken...Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure...Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken."

"Life is more fun if you play games."

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

"Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.."

"I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art."

"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."

"Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast."

"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."

"If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs."

"Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty."

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

"How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do."

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."

"Something that is yours forever is never precious"