rules-of-life

If you hesitate to learn from others, you will never learn anything new.

Wall your life, guard your heart and mind your mind! A life without a wall least blocks something! A mind without a wall accepts anything at all!

I didn__ know. I feel sometimes like_there are all these rules. Just to be a person. You know? You__e supposed to carry a shoulder bag, not a backpack. You__e supposed to wear headbands, or you__e not supposed to wear headbands. It__ okay to describe yourself as likeable, but it__ not okay to describe yourself as eloquent. You can sit in the front of the school bus, but you can__ sit in the middle. You__e not supposed to be with a boy, even when he wants you to. I didn__ know that. There are so many rules, and they don__ make any sense, and I just can__ learn them all

Familiarity increases carnality.

There are rules which are meant to break. There are roads not to be followed.There are memories meant to leave.There are so many things we should not care about.

I am a queen because I know why how to govern myself.

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

I kept staring at the moon. I'm not sure if its light was good or evil. I thought it might not be either. The moon just shines with the light of chaos. Mysteriously. Brightly. That must not be either good or evil. Just as the rules of this world are not all good.

(Love is the puzzle that) can__ be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it knows what they are. Also it can change the rules any time it wants, in any way it wants, and there__ nothing anyone can do about it.

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

I have these secret pangs of shame about being single, like I wasn't good enough to get a husband. Rita reminded me of something I'd told her once, about the five rules of the world as arrived at by this Catholic priest named Tom Weston. The first rule, he says, is that you must not have anything wrong with you or anything different. The second one is that if you do have something wrong with you, you must get over it as soon as possible. The third rule is that if you can't get over it, you must pretend that you have. The fourth rule is that if you can't even pretend that you have, you shouldn't show up. You should stay home, because it's hard for everyone else to have you around. And the fifth rule is that if you are going to insist on showing up, you should at least have the decency to feel ashamed.So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

If people do not know the rules, they will continue making mistakes and the situation will only worsen.

Mr. President, not only are you disastrous for the land, you are the man who must be held responsible for all the sins of the cowards, the cowards who were fooled into electing you as president.