Famous Quotes

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life"

"Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting."

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

"The Laughing Heartyour life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is a light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods will offer you chances.know them.take them.you can’t beat death butyou can beat death in life, sometimes.and the more often you learn to do it,the more light there will be.your life is your life.know it while you have it.you are marvelousthe gods wait to delightin you."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."

"If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to "explain," which usually implies that the explanation be "understood," i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation."

"Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be."

"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."

"Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own."

"You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend."

"EARLY BIRDOh, if you’re a bird, be an early birdAnd catch the worm for your breakfast plate.If you’re a bird, be an early early bird--But if you’re a worm, sleep late."

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."

"Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living."

"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."

"We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged"

"I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

"Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go."

"You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?"

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."