Life Quotes Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.”

“There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”

“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars- the high mass ones among them- went unstable in their later years- they collapsed and then exploded- scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy- guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas clouds that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems- stars with orbiting planets. And those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky, and I know that yes we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up- many people feel small, cause their small and the universe is big. But I feel big because my atoms came from those stars.”