"Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone."

-- Jim Butcher

#Life Is Too Short Quotes #Joy Quotes #Gone Quotes

“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.”

Source : Danzy Senna (2013). “From Caucasia, with Love”, p.315, A&C Black
“Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.”
“Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.”
“Is that why you came?' 'No, I came because I simply can't get enough of people looking down their noses at me. The girls at school are getting frightfully lax about it.' 'Are they? How remiss of them. We're taught from the cradle how to look down our noses, you know, we rich sons of bitches. Perhaps Westcliffe's curriculum is a tad too liberal these days.”
“If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.”
“I'm not a crazy old cat lady!”
“A rich man can afford to be generous to many.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
“I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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