Vita Brevis Jostein Gaarder Quotes

#1. Kindness is not an option, it is an absolute necessity of life.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons.

Carew Papritz

#3. Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

Bodhidharma

#4. I could actually see the magic of the place, shimmering like a soap bubble.

Cameron Dokey

#5. I thought that unless people know me, they wouldn't find me funny.

Heather McDonald

#6. Jealousy was not a place he was forced into by someone else, but a jail in which the inmate entered voluntarily, locked the door, and threw away the key.

Haruki Murakami

#7. With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

Orhan Pamuk

#8. As an artist, there were different levels in my career that brought me to a realization that I am what you would call a pure artist. And I don't say that with any type of vanity.

Heavy D

#9. He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a ferry. You didn't have to think about what you had to do or where you had to go for the next few hours. It was all laid out for you.

Mark Haddon

#10. Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift

Steven Pinker

#11. Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress.

Betty Hill

#12. New York gets god awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in the streets.

Jack Kerouac

#13. If your church is not going to support the committed same-sex relationships of LGBT congregants, be honest about that. Bait-and-switch is deceptively un-Christ-like and serves to push gay and transgender believers farther away each time the deception happens.

Kathy Baldock