All Quotes By Tag: Life-lessons

“Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give.”

“A parents wishes for their children shouldn’t be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world.”

“The best self help book I’ve ever read was, The little Engine that Could.”

“The way you separate Reality from Imagination is the number of bandages you have to use.”

“ما أطول الطرق التي نسلكها دون معرفة المحطة التي سنتوقف فيها أو الغاية التي نرغب في بلوغها”

“What river can flood over the mountains of your love?”

“You shouldn’t do that,” said Laura. “You could set yourself on fire.”

“Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it.”

“He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.”

“I don’t spend a lot of time asking “WHY?” Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should react.” (p.180)”

“It’s okay to wander.”

“We’re young. We’re supposed to drink too much. We’re supposed to have bad attitudes and shag each other’s brains out. We were designed to party. We owe it to ourselves to party hard. We owe it to each other. This is it. This is our time. So a few of us will overdose, or go mental. Charles Darwin said you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. That’s what it’s about – breakin’ eggs – by eggs, I mean, getting twatted on a cocktail of class. As. If you could see yourselves… We had it all. We have fucked up bigger and better than any generation that came before us. We were so beautiful… We’re screw-ups. I plan on staying a screw-up until my late twenties, or maybe even my early thirties. And I will shag my own mum before I let anyone else take that away from me!”

“I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.”

“Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.”

“What are you doing extra? That’s what counts. That’s when you’re working hard – when you’re going above and over what’s expected of you” (102). – Tony Gonzalez, “The Giant Within”