Jodi Picoult Quotes

Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.

I find myself a much happier person when I turn off my computer and live my life.

Life's so full that you just take it one day at a time.

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

There will never be a time when your life is not this moment.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built on. People miss so much because they want money and comfort and pride, a house and a job to pay for the house. And they have to get a car. You can’t see anything from a car. It’s moving too fast. People take vacations. That’s their reward—the vacation. Why not the life?

Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

I just want to live my life the best way I can and enjoy the moment that I have off the court because you need to find a good balance. I think this is very important.

Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.

I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.

Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.

Breathing in, breathing out, ain't that what it's all about. Living life crazy loud, like I have the right to.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.