All Quotes By Tag: Life
“being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous.”
“Nah,” I said. “But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.””What?””He’ll understand.”
“Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don’t even know it.”
“You get towards the end of life—no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?”
“الصديقان النموذجيان كما زوج من القنافذ,يتعاطفان,و يتعاونان و يتلازمان,و لكن لا يذوبان فى يعضهما لأن كل واحد له درقة من الأشواك تحميه من أن يقتحم عليه الاّخر خصوصيته و سريته و ينتهك وحدانية نفسه و قدسية استقلاله.”
“Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.”
“If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so. Words and thoughts don’t change anything. Language and reality are kept strictly apart — reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn’t. You deal with it, and you get on with your life.”
“Some times things just fall off your plate.”
“Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care and celebrate.”
“I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality.”
“They’ve drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don’t want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.”
“Just because you know it [my past]… doesn’t mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san”
“And even when they refuse to listen, I’ll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.”
“The voice says, maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don’t do. The things you don’t finish.”
“When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There’s a lesson there.”