“Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.”
More from Dean Koontz on Life
“I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.”
“You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.”
“In this world only the paranoid survive.”
“Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.”
“What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.”
“Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.”
“To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.”
“Holy men tell us life is a mystery.They embrace that concept happily.But some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.”
“Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.”
“My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Mitch Albom
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Joseph Campbell
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Cormac McCarthy
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Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
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