Jessica Zafra Quotes

There's nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you're going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect glory. What's wrong with liking yourself the way you are?

That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you.

As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.

Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.

I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

We are all the same in that we all want to be different.

In relationships it is best to assume nothing.

Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

Life is a series of random collisions.

You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

Beware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.

Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.

Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

The reason men rule is because women let them.

Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?

To live intensely is a basic human necessity.

My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.

Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.

If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

Never, ever point out that a woman is eating too much.