Life

Sometimes I hearscreaming like a childand wake upto find it’s me.

In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to go on it. It felt fresh and clean and unsafe, nothing like the heavy warm lard of palace life. The protective plastic wrap had been peeled off.

This isn't the end, and a beginning looks different. This is the moment in between, when everything still looks possible.

I have a distinct air of myself standing amidst such a crowd of people. My eyes set above, looking at the tall building if it bespeaks a promising note. I don’t know how fair is life, All I know is I have a plan to alter the face of it, the way I choose. A purpose, a driving motive, and an obsession.

My destiny plays with me in such a wayI feel I play with my destiny.

There is one clear urgency in your life that you must never neglect, and that is — you must be yourself.

Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.

She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.

There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.

A yogi realizes the divinity in him and the divinity that is present in this world. In his own heartbeat and his own regular breath he feels the flow of all the seasons and the throbbing touch of universal life.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

How old are you?”“Old enough to know better, but still young enough to do it again.

I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older. So when I was 18, I longed to be 30; when I was 30, I longed to be 50. I've always looked forward to my next birthday.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.

All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.

Somehow however just knowing that I could fully expect unhappiness to return – if not predictably then nevertheless reliably – was strangely liberating. The point was that even chaos had a structure a beginning and eventually an end. It was possible to live through it. I’d been doing as much for twenty years.