I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
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My imagination gave me a dual life: I lived in my body, and at the same time lived a life no one could see.
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.
Be a scar. Do not be ashamed of living through something.
This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.
The sea and the sky- how strange that somewhere they can exist apart.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
— Seneca, amazon.com
Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
Don’t you want to be alive before you die?
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
It’s not your life, it’s life. Life is bigger than you. Life isn’t something that you possess, it’s something that you take part in and you witness.
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.
If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they’ll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens.
Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.