Life Lessons Quote by Paul Auster — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else.”

“As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.”

“The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.”

“it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom”

“but even the facts do not always tell the truth”

“Ah, but I was so much older then”

“¡Si nuestra amistad depende de cosas como el espacio y el tiempo, entonces, cuando por fin superemos el espacio y el tiempo, habremos destruido nuestra propia hermandad! Pero supera el espacio, y nos quedará sólo un Aquí. Supera el tiempo, y nos quedará sólo un Ahora. Y entre el Aquí y el Ahora, ¿no crees que podremos volver a vernos un par de veces?”

“You will fall along the way, but if you refuse to be a failure, you will gather the strength to get up and work hard until you become a success.”

“Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.”

“Growth is unseen, but it stands in the middle of failure and success.”

“The truth is, we die a little every day. Yet somewhere between the ashes and the dawn, We must learn the quiet art of being reborn— And dare to love again.”