Quotes Tagged "life"

Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.

when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we all agreed on the same thing; we'd all like to die fucking (although none of us had done any fucking) and now that we are hardly kids any longer we think more about how not to die and although we're ready most of us would prefer to do it alone under the sheets now that most of us have fucked our lives away.

You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.

No one escapes from life alive.

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

Life itself is the proper binge.

I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Stop giving your life away to other people.

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence.

Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.