Famous Quotes

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not"

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."

"This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid."

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there"

"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

"But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."

"I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in"

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;Who has left the world better than he found it,Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;Whose life was an inspiration;Whose memory a benediction."

"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody."

"Reality continues to ruin my life."