#life

"Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?"

"That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking."

"Kansas State Motto Ad astra per aspera. [9]Flat land and flatline intelligence."

"I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life--I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life--day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is that I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it."

"If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something."

"You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through."

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

"Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries."

"This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!"

"Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you."

"This cruel age has deflected me,like a river from this course.Strayed from its familiar shores,my changeling life has flowedinto a sister channel.How many spectacles I've missed:the curtain rising without me,and falling too. How many friendsI never had the chance to meet."

"Privacy [10w] Why someone prefers his privacy is itself a private matter."

"In the long run, even a marathon looks like a sprint. This is how I can love with such Roger Bannisteresque intensity."

"Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance."

"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

"To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble."

"I had a dream about you last night... You tried to propose with a digital ceramic heater."

"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."

"I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies"