Life Quotes Quote by Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all the things you want from a person -- sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty -- and you get to pick three of those things. The rest you have to look for elsewhere. It's only in the movies that you find someone who gives you all those things. But this isn't the movies. In the real world, you have to identify which three qualities you want to spend the rest of your life with, and then you look for those qualities in another person. That's real life. Don't you see it's a trap? If you keep trying to find everything, you'll wind up with nothing.”

“It had always seemed to him a very plush kind of problem, a privilege, really, to consider whether life was meaningful or not.”

“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”

“I know how you feel, Willem," Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, "but he doesn't want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.”

“It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.”

“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”

“What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people.”

““Jamie: You know what I figured out today?”

“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”