“So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity.”
“It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than it is to live up to them.”
“The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.”
“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”
“People wasted so much time seeking out the love of their lives in the shape of a partner, when the truth was that for most the real loves of their lives were their children - and everyone else was dispensable.”
“It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.”