“Don t think about making life better for other people who don t even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.”
“و بى أملٌ يأتى ويذهب ، لكن لن أُوَدعه”
“And I told him, I said: One day you re going to miss the subway because it s not going to come. One of these days, it s going to break down and it s not going to come around and everyone else will just wait for the next one or will take the bus, or walk, or run to the next station: they will go on with their lives. And you re not going to be able to go on with your life! You ll be standing there, in the subway station, staring at the tube. Why? Because you think that everything has to happen perfectly and on time and when you think it s going to happen! Well guess what! That s not how things happen! And you ll be the only one who s not going to be able to go on with life, just because your subway broke down. So you know what, you ve got to let go, you ve got to know that things don t happen the way you think they re going to happen, but that s okay, because there s always the bus, there s always the next station...you can always take a cab.”
“Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven.”
“...throw roses into the abyss and say: here is my thanks to the monster who didn t succeed in swallowing me alive.”
“It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty...”
“Don t bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.”
“Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you ll see the world from another perspective.”
“Everything you want in life is a relationship away.”
“No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.”
“These days, I ve been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: Things I can change, and Things I can t. It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-thinking! I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. Love is a tricky business. But if it wasn t, I wouldn t be so enthralled with it. Lately I ve come to a wonderful realization that makes me even more fascinated by it: I have no idea what I m doing when it comes to love. No one does! There s no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can t plan for it. I can t predict how it ll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it s frustrating and it s tragic and it s beautiful. And even though there s no way to feel like I m an expert at it, it s worth writing songs about -- more than anything else I ve ever experienced in my life.”
“You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it s time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.”
“Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it s for you don t be proud or reckless, and when it s against you be patient, for both days are test for you.”
“Stories are a different kind of true.”
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”
“Do you think it will always be this way?” “What?” “I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?” I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. “I don t know,” I said. “Tomorrow.”
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.”