This Life Quotes
You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.
I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.
Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.
Writing is the great invention of the world.
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.
Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be
Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?
The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.
A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.
I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.
Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.
We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.
Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.
This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.