Life
Quotes - We are All Connected
“If
you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
―
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When
two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most
delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they
will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously
until death do them part.”
―
George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married
“You
don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If
you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”
―
Red Haircrow
“We
are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To
the rest of the universe atomically.”
―
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
“Sure,
we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had
qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with
pain. We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting
hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are
pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn
something.
Each
time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that
there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of
leaving something behind - gradutaing, taking the next step forward, walking
out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big, whirling
pain of life upending all of your plans and expecations. There's the sharp
little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't
give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of
hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your
love, and taking joy in their life they grow and learn. There's the steady pain
of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help
them bear their burdens.
And
if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel
when you realized that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an
instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot
possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life.
Everyone
is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for
the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
Pain
is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but
either way, it's a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain
does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes
away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it
leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important
that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or
another.”
―
Jim Butcher
“I
don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve
immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my
countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
―
Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader
“Art
is to console those who are broken by life.”
―
Vincent van Gogh
“There's
nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive
animal.”
―
Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
“Nobody
wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
―
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“For
I have known them all already, known them all—
Have
known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I
have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
―
T.S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
“Growing
up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could
change -Clary Fray”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
“Don’t
let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."
[Stanford
University commencement speech, 2005]”
―
Steve Jobs
“The
person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even
when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in
the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with
yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What
kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do
you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see
at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself,
and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I
want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not
full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Cynics
are simply thwarted romantics.”
―
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“Our
lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
―
Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“You
do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does
not resurrect.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Very
occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.”
―
Joss Whedon
“I
feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two
categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and
blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to
me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're
miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.”
―
Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay
“Yea,
all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
― H.
Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure
“I
have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking
about myself.”
―
Edith Sitwell
