“If you concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens… Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.”

“Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

“There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises….
If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,
not what pays”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

“You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.”

Tristan Tzara (1896–1963) Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist

“Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.”

John Grisham (1955) American lawyer, politician, and author

“You'll never see the moments coming that will for ever mutilate your life-at least not until after they've mowed you down.

-Savitar”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

“Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

“If you don't take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.”

Blake Lewis (1981) American musician

“You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.”

Benedict Freedman book Mrs. Mike