I'm Killing
Time
“make
a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may
previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So
many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the
initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of
security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one
peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous
spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living
spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters
with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an
endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If
you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous
security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to
you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its
full meaning and its incredible beauty.”
―
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
“Be
thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on
what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“I'm
killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
―
Bill Watterson
“If
the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed
to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
―
Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten
“If,
then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I
considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply
say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
―
Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
“Incredible
change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have
power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Stories
you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who
wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what
happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places
in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
―
Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic
“Life
is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
―
Helen Keller, The Open Door
“I
want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a
ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Do
you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an
intelligence and make it a soul?”
―
John Keats, Letters of John Keats
“to
love life, to love it even
when
you have no stomach for it
and
everything you've held dear
crumbles
like burnt paper in your hands,
your
throat filled with the silt of it.
When
grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening
the air, heavy as water
more
fit for gills than lungs;
when
grief weights you like your own flesh
only
more of it, an obesity of grief,
you
think, How can a body withstand this?
Then
you hold life like a face
between
your palms, a plain face,
no
charming smile, no violet eyes,
and
you say, yes, I will take you
I
will love you, again.”
―
Ellen Bass
“When
you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much,
do they?”
―
Virginia Woolf
“Do
not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best
time to be happy is always now.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Maybe
this world is another planet’s hell.”
―
Aldous Huxley
“Luxury
is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
―
Anais Nin
“Tiger
got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man
got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger
got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man
got to tell himself he understand.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“He
allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born
once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life
obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
―
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“Believe
in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon
yourself.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“It
is not the length of life, but the depth.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Death
is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
