What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.
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This is how we go on: one day a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It’s inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.
There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape - own it - break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit.
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it—or my observation of i…
I think the key to living a good life lies in the little things.
We’re in our 20s. It’s okay to be single. It’s okay to be engaged. It’s okay to black out on occasion and throw up in your dresser drawers (oh it’s not? sorry). LIVE FOR YOURSELF. Figure out what you want. Find out who you really are. Don’t force anything or make choices based on what other people a…
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
But there was so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.
It wasn't supposed to be this way. The artists, and the scientists, and the poets...none of them fit in at seventeen. You're supposed to get past it. Adults, they see kids killing kids and they know its a tragedy because they used to be those kids. The bullies and the beaten and the loners. You're s…
— Mouth, amazon.com
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.
I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.
What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how…
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.