Ive - Quotes
Life is pain! I wake up every morning in pain! Work is pain! You know how many times I just wanted to give up? How many times I`ve thought about ending it?
I have not failed. I`ve just found 10,000 ways that won`t work.
I have found men who didn`t know how to kiss. I`ve always found the time to teach them.
I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I`m gonna put pins into all the locations that I`ve traveled to. But first, I`m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won`t fall down.
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
I love my past. I love my present. I`m not ashamed of what I`ve had, and I`m not sad because I have it no longer.
I've learned that empowered thinking is a choice - a state of mind. It's the ability to enjoy a rose with no mind of the thorn. It's the ability to celebrate a life even though it has passed. It's seeing the flowers even during a rainstorm.
I`ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don`t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I`ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one`s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one`s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person`s view requires to be faked. [...] The man who lies to the world, is the world`s slave from then on.
If you`re not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown-up. Even worse, you`ll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books. I`ve met a lot of people, I`ve read a lot of books, and that`s the absolute truth.