Life Quotes Quote by Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.”

“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”

“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”

““The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness”

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”

“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.”