#life

"Epic vs. Great Poetry [10w] Epic poetry's about the extraordinary;Great poetry is about the commonplace."

"I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard."

"Pretending to be Deep ;) [10w] Only from the mountain's valley can you see the peak."

"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."

"[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever."

"Love is the best gift because it’s free to give and priceless to receive."

"If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas."

"My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way"

"For a day, just for one day,Talk about that which disturbs no oneAnd bring some peace into yourBeautiful eyes."

"Sometimes when I try to make jokes or have a sense of humor in interviews, it doesn't go over very well. But Twitter made my life easier in this way that I didn't expect. It would have taken probably 10 times as long for people to accept my voice and my sense of humor if I didn't have Twitter."

"CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it."

"I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias."

"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

"What kind of life can you have in a house without books?"

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

"The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization."

"The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts."

"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."

"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."

"I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works."