Always keep your smile. That’s how I explain my long life.

Allow yourself to be alive every single day of your life.

Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age – until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

The life you want is a manifestation of self-realization.

Life is but an empty dream

No human mind can fully grasp the gift of Christ’s atonement, the vastness and inclusiveness of the act—but in the end, it comes down to just you and Jesus. You’ve come, and He’s met you...

She’s the main character in her story, just like I’m the main character in mine.

It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishness, for the definitions of ‘journey’ and ‘life’ are indistinguishably synonymous....

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.

Heaven, such as it is, is right here on earth. Behold: my revelation: I stand at the door in the morning, and lo, there is a newspaper, in sight like unto an emerald. And holy,...

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels – none if she remains at home.

Je reste optimiste tout en me préparant au pire, maman, ça te semble bien comme compromis ?

Open your heart; open your mind. Let love bloom; let’s be kind.

The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation.

The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.

The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and...

Just because you know it [my past]… doesn’t mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san

Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.

Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.

I wish there was some method to transform all the agony in my imprudent heart to an energy source. It would have lit up the world till eternity!!!

Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think that that’s—that that’s it. That that’s the point, that that’s the goal, you...

Life is full of crap, so don’t add any crap in too it, because it will stick

Whatever they say about it, but being altruistic is not so simple for everyone. Not to look and sound like despotism, altruism must be learnt, and it’s a long way, which in fact begins from...

Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open.

Life is a bit like a sweet & toy & art & curiosity shop – all in one – only the best bits are free. If you look at all the things you can cherish...

Life is colorful, but B&W is just as beautiful

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

make money, buy houses, take trips around the world? Why else do they dwindle into a little circle of close friends, a farm upstate, and become in the end mere businessmen, shop-owners, decorators who like...

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it’s prepared to put up with living.

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

And when I wake up it’s wonderful, like I’ve been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now,...

I’m not talking to anyone, I’m delivering a monologue. It’s the inebriated man’s prerogative.

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it...

May God guide you along the best pathway for your life.

Live today facing forward—with your back on yesterday, your eyes on tomorrow, and your head and heart in the moment.

But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all.

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies heonly appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people tocry...

Figure out your passion. What floats your boat, rings your bell, lights your tree? A life without passion is possible, but not desirable. Have you really lived at all if you have not lived with...

They all seem infected with a vivaciousness that isn’t common in our compound, and there are more smiles on their faces than I’ve ever seen at once. And yet as I watch them, I feel...

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master’s painting and a forgery.

If I had a choice, I wouldn’t be here… I wouldn’t be anywhere.

When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.

Either they’re still naive, or stupid.

When I am running I inhabit and exit my body in the same moment. I bear witness to the harshest of physical sensations, even while I feel myself flying free and away. I do not...

Life is choice. You can choose to be who you dream to be or not to be. It all lies in the choice you make every day!

El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress.””I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts only a little while. We must snatch what we can...

We exist to fully participate in the creation our own lives.

When the sun goes down, melting away his caresses into the sky which consonants with the ocean, lively colors are scattered through the deep pale depth during some short sensuous instants. Later, as by art...

I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.