“This is the trap of having something to live for:
Everything else seems lifeless.”

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Everything is a version of something else.”

Patrick Marber Closer

“If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.”

Mervyn Peake book Titus Groan

“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

““There’s something else, Mr. Muzzlehatch.”
“I’m sure there is. In fact there is everything else.””

Mervyn Peake book Titus Alone

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

“Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.”

Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) American physician, poet and educator

“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller