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"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)

tags: love
126 people liked it

"Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges and absorbs the impact."
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)

57 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
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"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,769 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
2,015 people liked it

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
— Woody Allen

tags: humor, life, sex
1,114 people liked it

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life, peace
1,239 people liked it

"Where there is love there is life."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: life, love
1,142 people liked it

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
— May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
913 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,935 people liked it

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

tags: essential, happiness, love
3,228 people liked it

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

tags: love
2,860 people liked it

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

tags: love, poetry
2,701 people liked it

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: love
2,691 people liked it

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: adventure, love
1,783 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
2,844 people liked it

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: happiness
1,466 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time
1,793 people liked it

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: happiness
755 people liked it

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: happiness, love
367 people liked it

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
— Aristotle

tags: happiness
224 people liked it

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
— Guillaume Apollinaire

tags: happiness, life
159 people liked it

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: music
613 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,702 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,988 people liked it

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: confident, direction, dream, dreams, imagine, life, live
2,490 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,581 people liked it

"May you live every day of your life."
— Jonathan Swift

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
521 people liked it

"Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?"
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: humor, philosophy
504 people liked it

"Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together."
— Nicole Krauss

67 people liked it

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

tags: life
663 people liked it

"If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated: A Novel)

tags: life, love
281 people liked it

"I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
— Jonathan Safran Foer

148 people liked it

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
— Jonathan Safran Foer

169 people liked it

"She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

109 people liked it

"Why are you leaving me?
He wrote, I do not know how to live.
I do not know either but I am trying.
I do not know how to try.
There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me"
— Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: emotion, love
77 people liked it

"We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk."
— David Mitchell (Number 9 Dream)

tags: first-sentence
9 people liked it

"Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core."
— David Mitchell

tags: truth
6 people liked it

"History admits no rules; only outcomes."
— David Mitchell

1 person liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
19,012 people liked it

"Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive."
— Joanne Harris (Chocolat)

tags: alive, bittersweet, chocolate, happiness, heart, simplicity, torture
14 people liked it

"I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant."
— Joanne Harris (Chocolat)

tags: excess, music, poetry, rampant, volatile
14 people liked it

"The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things."
— Joanne Harris (Blackberry Wine: A Novel)

7 people liked it

"Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored."
— Joanne Harris (Blackberry Wine: A Novel)

6 people liked it

"It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope."
— Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys)

21 people liked it

"Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life."
— Michael Chabon

3 people liked it

"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

tags: life
433 people liked it

"It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious."
— John Irving (The Hotel New Hampshire)

tags: art, life, work
37 people liked it

"People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers."
— John Irving (The Cider House Rules)

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