I Wanted
A Perfect Ending
1
“Every
man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a
man cold when he is only sad.”
―
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2
“If
you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
―
George Harrison
3
“All
God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be
boring.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
4
“Sometimes
I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not
living.”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
5
“This
life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
―
George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
6
“Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
―
Margaret Mead
7
“Death
ends a life, not a relationship.”
―
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
8
“Do
not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the
purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
―
Gustave Flaubert
9
“You
cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
―
Michael Cunningham, The Hours
10
“May
you live every day of your life.”
―
Jonathan Swift
11
“I
wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't
rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is
about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of
it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious
Ambiguity.”
―
Gilda Radner
12
“Where
there is love there is life.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
13
“If
my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
“Get
busy living or get busy dying.”
―
Stephen King, Different Seasons
14
“There
are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull
back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with
passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first,
in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot
fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution
and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted
vision of people who embrace life.”
―
John Lennon
15
“Don't
be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your
heart.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“If
the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely
challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between
a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it
hard to plan the day.”
―
E.B. White
16
“These
woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But
I have promises to keep,
And
miles to go before I sleep,
And
miles to go before I sleep.”
―
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
17
“We
have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may
prove to be.”
―
May Sarton
18
“All
the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
―
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
19
“Anyone
who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
―
Oscar Wilde
20
“To
love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used
to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To
seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify
what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never
power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And
never, never to forget.”
―
Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
