Famous Quotes

"I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles."

"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

"Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters."

"Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning."

"Life… For some it is battle for others its dance...For rich it is party for poor it is chance!"

"HOBBES:Virtue needs some cheaper thrills."

"...Life is much simpler if you don’t notice anything...."

"Our life is made by the death of others."

"I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving."

"Guilt reminds me of a stray cat. You chase it away and yet, it comes back when you least expect it. If you let yourself feel pity for it and feed the thing, it parks its ugly, puny, lonely-for-attention butt on your doormat and won't go away. Scat kitty cat, scat. I don't need you sitting around here like that."

"It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments."

"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

"A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length."

"I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that"

"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."

"He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

"Don't set your goals by what other people deem important."

"Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am."

"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more..."

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."