#life

"Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."

"...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other."

"I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy."

"Like Alexander the Great and Caesar, I’m out to conquer the world. But first I have to stop at Walmart and pick up some supplies."

"I had a dream about you last night.. You were in the amazon rain forest yipping like a dog."

"Deaf [10w] No man suffers deafness if he listens with his eyes."

"It seems we are all too vulnerable to having our heart lead us astray from what is right"

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."

"You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too."

"When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all."

"Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness."

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."

"Death as Opportunity [10w] Death's an opportunity to wisely fill the void it leaves."

"The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence."

"I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that your house hasn't burned down, you don't have cancer, and your daughter hasn't been raped or murdered. The bad news is that I ran over your dog. And your son. And his wife. But not before I ran out of gas to achieve all of that."

"You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance."

"Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!"

"The Phenomenon of Life {Couplet} The potter's some man of clay who's molding clay,a robot making an automaton;Every day we recreate ourselves from what bricks we're made,how wondrous life's phenomenon!"

"Unless you're a lesbian... [10w] Feminism is not a sustainable position without giving up love."

"Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence."