#life

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

"Chutzpah {Limerick} Despite your unmitigated audacity,you're effrontery remains one of opacity.Let me suggest you turn Jewand learn chutzpah too,to realize your fullest capacity."

"I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible."

"Trust to some was placing all your insecurities and beliefs in one single person, and hoping he or she wouldn’t squash them."

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

"To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason."

"No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in our sad, bewildering lives..."

"If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it."

"There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves."

"To be invisible, paint yourself with the direct shade of zero. Leave nothing to chance, by taking nothing with you wherever you go."

"We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we haveIt's the one that is dividedIn right or wrong."

"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end."

"You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think."

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."

"That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking."

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."

"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."

"No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens."

"When you are measuring life, you are not living it."