Quotes about life

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“Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”

“We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”

“Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.”

“Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.”

“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”

“Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

“I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember”

“Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.”

“A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.”

“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”

“While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.”

“Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.”

“I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.”

“How many people ask you to come share their life?”

“Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.”

“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”

“Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto.”

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”

“You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.”

“Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.”

“Remember… life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.”

“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.”

“There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect.”

“So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.”

“That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.”

“This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.”

“How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?”

“Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.”

“All of life is a foreign country.”

“I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.”

“I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my bed. If i can have that, nothing else matters.”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

“We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.”

“The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.”

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”

“Expectation. is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.”

“I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.”

“Do you know what I love? Life. And romantic love is a distraction that makes staying alive more difficult. " [Sabine]”

“You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.”

“He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.”

“It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.”

“My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.”

“You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.”

“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”

“We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”

“It's not Cowardly to make a choice about what you want your life to be. Choosing what's right for you, maybe that's the bravest thing you can do.”

“If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!”

“If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't”

“It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we have in Jesus Christ.”

“There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.”

“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.”

“Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.”

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

“As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.”

“I used to be afraid of dying. Now I’m afraid of not living. There’s a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes.”

“This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”

“Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads."
"Or tails," suggested Allie.
"What are youabout?" said Lief.
"Life and death.”

“You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”

“Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.”

“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe”

“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
Steve Martin”

“Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon?… The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.”

“You told me I was the best sex you'd ever had in your life… You couldn't get enough… At one point you were so loud I thought sure hotel security was going to beat down the door.”

“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

“For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.”

“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”

“He swallowed. “Have you no modesty?” Never in his life had he encountered a female so quick to be naked. Of course, he’d never in his life encountered a female who should so utterly be naked at any chance.”

“I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.”

“I think I’ve got something else to help center my life.”

“The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.”

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”

“You use your life.”

“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”

“He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.”

“And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end”

“You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.”

“If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”

“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.”

“The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?”

“Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into
are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing
for long years.
And for this reason, some old things are lovely
warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.”

“They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.”

“It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.”

“Life is a train, get on board.”

“Harry Dresden: Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”

“You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.”

“Has that line ever worked for anyone?”
“I’m not feeding you lines. I mean every word.”
…
“Day One of my life was the day I met you.”
“Okay, that’s a winner. You can put it in.”

“I like the rain. It washes memories off the sidewalk of life.”

“You can put anything into words, except your own life”

“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

“She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.”

“If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.”

“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”

“If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.”

“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”

“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life”

“They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.”

“Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?”

“Thank you… for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”