In Life Quotes
But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.
He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.
If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.
I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time
If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.
No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.
The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it
I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.
I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.
How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.
At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.
I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.
The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.
Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".