Quotes about life

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“People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”

“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”

“There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.”

“Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.”

“And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.”

“Possibly. Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.”

“I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?”

“Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.”

“I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.”

“He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.”

“I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.”

“I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.”

“I'm not interested in a life that doesn't have you in it.”

“There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.”

“I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.”

“If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

“I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.”

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”

“It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.”

“The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.”

“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”

“Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.”

“You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.”

“Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.”

“You should not confuse your career with your life.”

“What the hell? Futility has its purposes in life." -- Talon.”

“Make something beautiful of your life.”

“I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.”

“Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.”

“There is no wealth but life.”

“I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.”

“Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.”

“There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.”

“He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.”

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..”

“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”

“You can take my life, but you'll never break me.
So bring me your worst…
And I will definitely give you mine.”

“Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.”

“The less of routine, the more of life.”

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”

“Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?”

“I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia.”

“Anything dead coming back to life hurts.”

“At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.”

“She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.”

“It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.”

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”

“Life is not a dress rehearsal.”

“The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.”

“Life if curious when reduced to its essentials”

“Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!”

“Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.”

“Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment… But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.”

“That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.”

“A life without a cause is a life without effect.”

“When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity… you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others”

“The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you.
Or who isn't.”

“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”

“I live my life you live yours. If you're clear about what u want then you can live anyway you please. I don't give a damn what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”

“Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.”

“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.”

“… larger than life… I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?”

“All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.”

“But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.”

“Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.”

“Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.”

“Oh, yes. I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.”

“In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.”

“Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative."

"Which is?"

"Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?”

“One can enjoy existence, not life.”

“when life gives you lemons, say, "yeah I like lemons, what else ya got"?”

“No,’ Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up.”

“Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.”

“To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.”

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”

“Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same.”

“If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.”

“Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.”

“Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question.”

“The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.”

“Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl… interrupted.”

“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”

“Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.”

“I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.”

“The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.”

“Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.”

“I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.”

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.”

“Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.”

“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”

“I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.”

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”

“A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.”

“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories.”

“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”

“No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?

No.

It's never like what you expected.

Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”

“Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering.
Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them.
Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.”

“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”

“Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably normal. She believed she couldn't hurt anybody as long as she was only working.”