“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”— Jack London, en.wikiquote.org
“The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.”— Shakti Gawain, amazon.com
“Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.”— Robert Frost, en.wikisource.org
“In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared l…”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.”— Jarod Kintz, amazon.com
“Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you just refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.”— Elizabeth Taylor, amazon.com