“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.”— Madeleine Albright, amazon.com
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“My life is nothing but room for you,’ I said. ‘It could never be filled by anyone but you.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“I would rather have a body full of scars and a head full of memories than a life of regrets and perfect skin.”— Atticus, amazon.com
“Where there’s no progress, there’s no growth. If there’s no growth, there’s no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, goodreads.com
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenge or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are disconte…”— Jonathan Carroll, amazon.com
“The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.'”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I’m number one in his life. I’m not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.”— Amy Tan, amazon.com
“It’s very strange that the people you love are often the people you’re most cruel to.”— Kenneth Branagh, m.imdb.com
“She became whoever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com