#life

"The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment."

"We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break."

"With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing."

"His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated."

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."

"No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same."

"Oppressor vs. Oppressed [10w] Love somtimes disintegrates into becoming the oppressor or the oppressed."

"Knowledge vs. Wisdom [10w] + [10w] Knowledge is the understanding that you are what you eat. Wisdom is not eating a pussy with hair on it."

"In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive."

"Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it."

"It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing."

"National Rifle Association Credo [10w] God gave us two hands to holdan assault rifle."

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

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

"The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God."

"Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?"

"Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It’s ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices."

"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves."