It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It's just that . . . I just think that some things are meant to be broken, imperfect and chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.
-Sarah Dessen
"The Truth About Forever"
Quotations
Life
What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes? The real life is within.
-Khalil Gibran
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
-Samuel Dickey Gordon "S. D. Gordon"
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
-Edgar Allan Poe
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Life is a journey towards the unknown. An empty mind is useful in that journey rather than a mind filled with past.
-J. Krishnamurti
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
-Katharine Hepburn
"Me: Stories of My Life"
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may… meet with great misfortunes.
-Aristotle
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
-Kurt Vonnegut
"The Sirens of Titan"
