Life

The Santa Ana Windgusts downdesert canyons.Hot. Dry. Electric.Some say it ignites tempers.I say it ignited us.

One thing I've always wondered—why did you enter that bikini contest when you were a teenager?” Her face flushed with a mixture of anger and embarrassment. “How far back did you trace me?” “Far enough.” A pause. “You didn't answer my question.” “And you didn't turn into a puff of smoke and disappear. The world is full of disappointments.

The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me.

I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so many knots it could make a boy scout envious.

No matter how small you are or feel or think you are–live big. Yours is the only life of you, in this form, the world will ever have!

Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.

So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis,Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies.

I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.

The letter came at a time in his life when the battle inside his soul could have tipped either way.

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.

I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Man needs difficult times for reflection and personal growth.

What is life but a fucked-up factory fabricating fuckups?

It doesn't seem to make any sense, but then it never does! It's usually only afterwards when the pieces finally fit together, that you're left standing there thinking how obvious it always was.

Once you hold the hand of Death, the only thing in life that can scare you is a sense of humor.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

The reality is that many of us in these parts are not enamored of Paris.' The Commandant gulped down his coffee. 'I worked there as a young officer in the CRS, the riot squad. I speak from personal experience. Paris is bizarre. Paris is a museum surrounded by a jungle.

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.