In a sense, I’m the one who ruined me: I did it myself.
Please remember: things are not what they seem.
If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.
She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Nobody’s going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can’t always be in the fast lane.
Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.
We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can’t predict it. That’s love.
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
Everything in life is a metaphor.
You don’t have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.
I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.
That’s how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.
Find me now. Before someone else does.
A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.