#life

"Only a fool would say they’re not a fool. Well, I am not a fool, which is why I say I am a fool."

"You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all."

"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]"

"As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think."

"I curse in cursive. It's hard to read and harder take. But if you take it black, like coffee, then at least it may wake you up to the realities of life."

"You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable."

"Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it."

"Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you."

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

"Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!"

"It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out."

"If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times."

"Now I'm making a decision. I choose life. I shall live because there are few people I want to stay with for the longest possible time and because I have duties to discharge. It is not my concern whether or not life has meaning. If I am unable to forgive, then I shall try to forget. I shall live by force and cunning."­"

"Start here & go until you die, he said. What's so complicated about that?"

"Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good."

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

"In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it."

"Cynics are simply thwarted romantics."

"Atheism [10w] Atheism is the tragic triumph of cold contemptuousness over gratitude."

"Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding."