Quotes about life
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
One has to do something new in order to see something new.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.
