Aliveinquotes - Alive In Quotes

We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything - and I advise you to do the same.

Cat's Cradle; Kurt Vonnegut

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Cat's Cradle; Kurt Vonnegut

“Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she’d wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she’d known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.”

— Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

‘Maturity,’ Bokonon tells us, 'is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.’

Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (via dukeofbookingham)