You ain’t living unless your living high

The needles they poke you with leaves a hole that closes in. But unkind words can make a hole that will never mend.

With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.

Growing old is to be set free. It is a slow and long-simmering process that extracts you from what you are really made of. But it requires acceptance. You cannot put a flailing chicken in...

Spending all your energy on one opinion is like confining yourself to living in a box, and most people in a box aren’t living.

Every person who denies the truth is a coward who doesn’t want to admit the truth

Life without faith, is like an empty beautiful chocolate box!

No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I’d like to live in the country, but I don’t....

Build your life in self-controlpurity, moderation in food and drink, and obedience to the will Divine. and you will have built well !!!!

I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

In the nineteen years since then, I had learned eleven languages and 713 songs. I had found ways to conceal what I was—even, I was fairly sure, from the Lord of the Radch herself. I...

It’s amazing how resilient people are, and how the things that didn’t come true become,after a while, simply the way things are.

In the beginning, there was movement.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

Real love is a humble receptivity of a silent heart that is prepared to melt and merge…

Before, I wanted to say: “I found love!” But now, I want to say: “I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.

A picture should capture a moment, a place in time you can return to again and again.

And I told him, I said: “One day you’re going to miss the subway because it’s not going to come. One of these days, it’s going to break down and it’s not going to come...

following a process is being programmed, living is doing it in other way.

Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather many wounds; but cherish your scars for they are...

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

…thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has...

Sorry! But I’m not a game played when ever you want to play it!

A vida me mostrou que não era vilã, por isso, era em vão tentar me vingar.

I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it long enough to memorize it, our years apart. How strange. And it’s still loved, or its memory is...

If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

Desenrolo-me como uma meada multicolor, ou faço comigo figuras de cordel, como as que se tecem nas mãos espetadas e se passam de umas crianças para as outras. Cuido só de que o polegar não...

In the race of life, what matters is to complete your race.

We gain new perspectives on life after every voyage.

Work passionately.

Joyful life, sharing life with people.

The story of the book filled the car with exciting adventures of the sort that are fun to read about, so we didn’t have to think about the exciting adventures of the sort that are...

May you live life to the fullness.

Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are already within us. Our learning starts as soon as we are born.

To taste life, so true and real. Sweet serenity.

There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private

speak your mindonce you start-nothing can dominate you at their mental slavery

In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer...

ma due possono. Con un aiuto adeguato, avresti potuto fermarti a sette anni.

What’s the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of...

Play life on hard. Easy might be safer but where is the fun in that?

You aren’t perfect. You aren’t glass. You’re not gold. You’re not right. But you are precious. Remember that.

A few diaries could replace tons of self help books simply because their written in the first person…

Sometime don’t think don’t say don’t do…is the best way to deal with life!

Like attracts like. It’ll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like...

The world is a palace without bedsheets

I believe bending to the will or beliefs of one person and not being an individual will eventually lead to the perpetual destruction of society today as we know it!

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don’t betray will be betrayed.

I honestly wish I could believe that things will end perfectly with one big bright happy ending. But these last few days have taught me that life isn’t made up of shiny moments. Life is...