Life is not being good or bad, Its how much we desire to choose between them

In a way, machines are lucky because they are not produced by chance or mistake

Self-realization is attained only when we comprehend the difference between the things we could own and things we cannot

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. Because Gram's right, there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess. It's like the day Mr. James took us into the woods and cried triumphantly, "That's it! That's it!" to the dizzying cacophony of soloing instruments trying to make music together. That is it.

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.