If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, dosen´t it just lie there and rot?

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.

Whether you clean a stain, a fish, a house, you want to think you´re making the world a better place, but really you´re just letting things get worse. You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you´re changing a patio lightbulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you´ll only change this light maybe ten more times before you´ll be dead.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were to scared of being alone.

Kids, she says. When they're little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it's just the opposite. After that, you're either a liar or a fool or a villain.

Når vi virkelig elsker noen, er til å begynne med vår største frykt at den elskede vil slutte å elske oss. Det vi burde frykte og grue oss for, er selvfølgelig av vi ikke skal slutte å elske dem, selv etter at de er døde og borte.

det store tricket her i livet er å ikke ønske seg noe, og deretter lykkes i å skaffe seg det

En av grunnene til at vi higer etter kjærligheten og søker den så desperat, er at kjærligheten er det eneste som kan lindre ensomhet, skam og sorg. Men noen følelser skjuler seg så dypt i hjertet ditt at det bare er ensomheten som kan hjelpe deg må finne dem igjen. Noen sannheter om deg selv er så smertefulle at det bare er skammen som kan hjelpe deg med dem. Og enkelte ting er så triste at det bare er sjelen din som kan gråte over dem for deg.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

This isn’t about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you’re planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the role better.

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.