#life

"How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting."

"Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes."

"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

"A Tad Old Fashioned [10w] "Save all your sighing and swooning for the 18th Century, bitch."

"I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want."

"I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it."

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."

"As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves."

"We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art."

"For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country."

"The Universe Begins and Ends in Us If a telescope could see beyond the edges of the universe,we would see ourselves looking into a telescope trying to see beyond the edges of universe."

"Some people are not meant to be a part of our lives forever. Some people visit our lives for a brief period, not to stay in it, but to show us something that we have been unable to see it ourselves. In the form of a gift, a lesson or a piece of wisdom, they change the course of our life and help us to fulfill our destiny."

"Telephone pole wires get in the way of great photos. Communication always gets in the way of communication."

"Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead."

"It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way"

"Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love."

"Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly."

"That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that."

"Mental strength induces mind and body."

"Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art."