Life Bookmark Quotes & Sayings

Why can't you just understand that not having a plan is my plan?" Chris implored. "I don't know exactly where I'll be. That's the whole point, the freedom of it. I've been so structured with school and sports and work - everything has been scheduled and laid out for me. I just want to get out of that mundane existence and purely enjoy life for a while. I'll decide on the fly where I want to go next. — Carine McCandless

Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor. — Jimmy Hoffa

The OWN network is all about inspiring and enlightening. — Kym Whitley

Unsubstantial Death is amorous. — William Shakespeare

Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story. — Richelle Mead

Time - the lizard in the sunlight. It doesn't move, but its eyes are wide open. — Charles Simic

Will I
help him make something of his life?
Who will help me? Why does everyone
presume that I, as damaged merchandise,
forfeit any claim to happiness? That I
expect nothing, have no ambitions or
longings of my own? When was it
agreed that my lot would be to gladly
serve as a prop and a crutch for others
who are whole? — Julie Berry

I," I start, and she turns to look at my lips moving, rehearsing for some grand proposal. "I think it'd be good idea if you brought a few books over and left them on my shelf." I'm a writer, and this is as good as it gets. She didn't need a ring, just the ability to borrow a bookmark whenever she needed, or unwritten or unspoken permission to take my copy of Cecil Brown's The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger with the original cover. — Darnell Lamont Walker

[Wild animals], and the beautiful landscapes that sustain them ... possess a value and a virtue regardless of our dwindling connection with them. It seems that there is a virtue and a wisdom in keeping some things beyond our reach: that the protection of wilderness itself is imperative ... We have touched, and are consuming, everything. The world is very old, and we are so new. I like the feeling of awe
what the late writer Wallace Stegner called 'the birth of awe'
in beholding wild country not reduced by man. I like to remember that it is wild country that gives rise to wild animals; and that the marvelous specificity of wild animals reminds us to wake up, to let our senses be inflamed by every scent and sound and sight and taste and touch of the world. I like to remember that we are not here forever, and not here alone, and that the respect with which we behold the wild world matters, if anything does. — Rick Bass

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'. — Dan Brown

Settle back is to settle without knowing. — Bruce Springsteen

He didn't miss them. He didn't miss any of his life, really, especially the last year. Time had simply been a bookmark. Something that held his place while he waited to finish the story. — Mary Lindsey

Bookmark your dreams, go back and continue where you left them. — Suleman Abdullah

I read too much as a child; I believe now that I can bookmark unrealized events in my life to return to them later. — Charlotte Shane

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. — George Saunders

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. — Robert Breault

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would. — Steven Amsterdam

Good-bye, she murmured, bidding farewell not so much to the apartment as to the self that had lived here. — Haruki Murakami