Life

Don’t work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Don’t make work your whole life.

The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged the souls of the people who have brought the atomic bomb.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

At first we hope too much later on not enough.

I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.

I know you're more than fae.' She just grinned. 'It's true, I'm part fae, part awesome.

The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.

A writer fills the paper with the pictures of perception, experience, and feeling of real and imaginative lives.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.

What if pretending is interfering with the person you’re meant to be?” he said.

He glared at Mr. Diddley’s yellow-toothed smile, and thought how he’d like to shove a toothbrush in his mouth and teach him how to use it.

You die in the middle of your life.

I will keep my bulk. All of it, if ye dinna mind. I will have need of it, thank ye.' Derrick to Samantha.

There’s no reason to cry over spilled milk. People cannot change the things that have already happened.

Life is great with positive outlook on life.

My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... Life being brilliant.

Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the World which others, who are adrift upon it, know.

A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.

Smile all the While. Don't let miseries Pile! For life is just a Mile.