Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
Who says life is fair, where is that written?
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
We could do it, you know. What? Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
Life's as kind as you let it be.
She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.
The person you became with her is worth being.