Fredrik Backman Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life? Britt-Marie Was Here

2. Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy. Beartown

3. He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced. A Man Called Ove

4. Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts. Beartown

5. Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason. Beartown

6. One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened. Britt-Marie var här

7. One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are. Beartown

8. Ponekad se možda mora živeti za nešto kako bi se preživelo sve ostalo. Us Against You

9. She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life. A Man Called Ove

10. That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's. Anxious People

11. They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. Anxious People

12. To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home. A Man Called Ove

13. Учителката ни накара да напишем съчинение за това какви искаме да станем като големи — разказва Ноа.— Ти какво написа?— Написах, че първо искам да се съсредоточа върху това да бъда малък.— Това е много добър отговор.— Нали? Пък и предпочитам да стана стар, а не голям. Всички големи са ядосани, само децата и старите хора се смеят.— Написа ли това в съчинението?— Да.— Какво каза учителката ти?— Каза, че не съм разбрал задачата.— А ти какво й каза?— Казах, че тя не е разбрала отговора.

14. I walked too fast, you would run to catch up with me and take hold of my hand, and that those were the best moments of my life. Your fingertips in the palm of my hand. Before you know how many things I'd failed at. Anxious People

15. If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit. Anxious People

16. Jedina vrednost koja postoji na svetu jeste vreme. Jedna sekunda je uvek sekunda, i o tome nema pregovora. The Deal of a Lifetime

17. Living alongside each other, not with each other. Anxious People

18. No, the majority of people just survive, they think their things have a value but nothing does. Things only have a price, based on expectation, and I do business with that. The only thing of value on Earth is time. One second will always be a second, there’s no negotiating with that. The Deal of a Lifetime

19. One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened. Britt-Marie var här

20. One year? What wouldn't we give for one more year? A year is an eternity. Us Against You

21. Ponekad se možda mora živeti za nešto kako bi se preživelo sve ostalo. Us Against You

22. Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders. Britt-Marie var här

23. That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's. Anxious People

24. the ones who make you laugh last a lifetime Anxious People

25. There is something romantic about the thought of all the apartments that aren’t for sale. Anxious People

26. There's a loser in every relationship. We may not like to admit it, but one of us always gets a little more and one of us always gives up a little more readily. Us Against You

27. You can't live long with the ones who are only beautiful, Jules. But the funny ones, oh, they last a lifetime Anxious People

28. You dance with the person you went to the party with. Anxious People