There is always someone better off than you, and there is always someone worse off than you.

You can meet someone who's just right, but he might not be meant for you. You break up, you lose things, you never feel the same again. But maybe you should stop questioning why. Maybe you should just...

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you...

There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking.

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Missing tiny things in our life is more painful than things that we deserve in our live

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

Live first, write second.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms...

Two things I can't stand - sitting and sleeping.

She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

You'd better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you.

Thank God I've wasted my youth already. I don't want to do that again.

Safe? What can be classified as safe? Everything we do in life has a risk. Just getting out of bed each morning can be dangerous. It's not a matter of what is safe, Cooper, it's a matter of what are...

The path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell.

If you are happy then you are the winner in the race we call life.

I wish I was more Moomin-minded.

Seriously. Just because you can't experience everything doesn't mean you shouldn't experience anything. - Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

If you woke up this morning in good health, then you have a great reason to be very grateful and thankful. Life is always better when you celebrate every moment of it with the spirit of gratitude.

Keep it simple, keep it tasty. Salt, pepper and garlic. Shallot another day, lemon grass for next week. Nutmeg and cinnamon every now and then.

I look around the room and can't help but think about how it is the little things we look back on in life. I wonder how often people think that they should pay more attention to them.

you were attacked by cement monkeys?

He prefers his adventures second hand.

There is no adventure without risk, and no exhilaration like adventure.

Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action and inaction, work and rest.

Growth happens slowly, slow down today and enjoy life without being in a hurry

There are no safe voyages and no safe ports.

The rule was that they never went to the same place twice

But it's like no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right train, there's still no guarantee that anybody's gonna be there for you to pick you up...