life

"I know I love her, because when I see her my heart beats like a drum. If she played guitar and sang, we could start a band."

"For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life."

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

"There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance."

"الله عادل، لكن الحياة غير عادلة. الحياة ليست مكانًا للعدل، بل لاختبار حسّنا تجاهه"

"It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important."

"الندم هو صوت الفطرة لحظة الخطأ"

"The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct."

"I once saw two endangered species about to have sex, but I had to put a stop to it because I suspected one of them of being a prostitute."

"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between."

"Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to."

"Her love is more aww than awe, and even if were awesome, I want aweall, not merely some awe. I’m greedy for the amazing."

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."

"The only thing you have to do in this life is die,"said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice."

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches."

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

"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."

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."