#life

"If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life."

"Having the life of your dreams is simple: make conscious choices."

"Dangerous Food [10w] The world's most fattening foods are the ones you swallow."

"Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind."

"Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said."

"Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you."

"ᏰέƦẙḽԃṏሁ Լέῳ [10w] II ᏰέƦẙḽԃṏሁ Լέῳ accounts for 15.7% of all Hello Poetry's pageviews."

"The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me."

"Fulfillment [10w] Sometime fulfillment goes beyond the date Amazon delivers your order."

"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

"Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet."

"Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude."

"Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?” asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. “Why is it an either or question?” the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought."

"They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that."

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

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

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."

"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."

"Bespeckled Heroes [10w] Great heroes in 100 years become statues speckled with birdshit."