“To think big is to love the universe, to embrace our passion. To love is to fight for what we love. What a waste not to, when we have only this one life to live.”
- Michael Port, The Think Big Manifesto
“We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.”
- Stedman Graham
in Build Your Own Life Brand
“A person without character has no enemies. So I prefer to make enemies.”
- Paul Newman
“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.”
- Joseph Campbell
“Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.” - [from the trailer]
“You never know what’s coming for you.”
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”
“I want to remember us, just as we are now.”
“In the end, you have to let go.”
“I look a lot older than I really am.”
Benjamin Button: I was thinking how nothing last, and what a shame that is.
Daisy: Some things last.
“It’s a tragedy in the sense that any love involves loss, and that’s the risk you take. And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I’m with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary.”
- Brad Pitt in an interview about Benjamin Button
“Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”
—Reverend E.H. Chapin
“Life means to have something definite to do—a mission to fulfill—and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.”
—Jose Ortega y Gasset, philosopher
“In this hustle and bustle world we live in it takes creativity and resourcefulness to give a gift from the heart.”
- Sherry Nicholson, Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul