Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all...

O Me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who...

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better...

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But… being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something… If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

Plant the seeds of gratitude to grow and enjoy the abundance of life.

It is important to be successful, but the most important thing in life is to be happy.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

I’m recapitulating…condensing…it’s the Readers Digest style…people only have time to read thirty pages…apparently!…maximum!…that’s all they have time for! they horse around for sixteen hours out of twenty-four, they sleep, they copulate the rest, where would...

And that’s how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live...

There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.

Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!

Very few people have the nerve to grab their dreams. Most that you meet will be half-images or carbon copies of who they really want to be.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Are you an Is there? or a There isn’t! kind of person? I’m more of an Is there isn’t? kind of guy.

To understand a person it takes time but to find a person who understand you takes a life.

There’s Light At The End of Every Tunnel. So Keep Moving If You Get A Sign of HOPE. You Never Know, That Might Be The Last Chance You’ll Get To See The Shiny Day. Never...

Trippers and askers surround me,People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward andcity I live in, or the nation,The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors oldand new,My dinner, dress,...

Putting into words what exactly was off is not easy. I myself don’t even understand it. It was like a replica of my best friend was sitting in front of me, saying well-rehearsed lines at...

Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him

Never give up hope! If you do, you be dead already.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than...

You can never be too early to stand around and wait. You can have a seat in this chair, after I cinch the noose around my neck and you kick it out from under my...

We’re all dead the moment we’re born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

To be a success, follow your love but not the process.

In Life, What Would Be Best For You, You Know It Best….

Not every given chance deserves love, but every love deserves a given chance.

It’s a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But...

People always forget about prophecies unless they come true.

Worldly possessions didn’t matter much to him, but his freedom did. He could come and go as he pleased, with nothing more than the backpack underneath his seat. It was a simple existence for a...

We make a living by what we give; and live a life by what we have yet to give.

If your vision inspires others to see their dreams and your actions motivate them to realize it, then you are a leader.

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory – horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene – and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic...

Have an intrinsic sense of direction of life. Have a goal-oriented conviction and trust.

Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to...

Strength of character isn’t always about how much you can handle before you break, it’s also about how much you can handle after you’ve broken.

You will be fine,’ the fortune teller says. ‘There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

Sometimes life hands us a mirror and dares us to take a look.

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was...

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place...

Be appreciating to see the beauty of life.

He believed he understood, for the first time, why people say life is a dream: if you live long enough, the events of a lifetime, like the events of a dream, cannot be communicated, simply...

Make mistakes often without remorse or fear. You will gain experience and will be a winner.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

It really hurts when I see two good friends arenot talking to each other from long ago. Life isjust for once. There are so many arguments youcan win with but you are gonna lose the...

There’s always that song that brings you back to the past. That makes you pause in the middle of what you’re doing just so you could hear it clearly. The words bringing you back to...

I like the disaster of the night sky, stars spilling this way and that as if they were upturned from a glass. I like the way good madness feels. I like the way laughter always...

Life’s managed, not cured.

And life is what we make it.Always has been, always will be.

I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived.