Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
-Paulo Coelho
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
-Paulo Coelho
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything is Illuminated"
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
-Ernest Hemingway
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
-Frank Zappa
What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes? The real life is within.
-Khalil Gibran
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
-Carl Gustav Jung
If you can always smile at life, life will always smile at you.