Life Quotes Quote by Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”

“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”

“We all give up great expectations along the way.”

““She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them.”

“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”