Famous Quotes

"We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there."

"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."

"For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

"This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."

"It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

"Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it."

"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."

"But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel."

"To perceive is to suffer."

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."

"Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free."

"I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves."

"If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like."

"The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be."

"Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page."

"Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today."

"Cynics are simply thwarted romantics."

"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."

"Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pan, loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes not to see the bad things in life."