All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.