Quotes about life

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“When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.”

“College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?”

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”

“Life is a journey, not a destination.”

“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”

“Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.”

“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”

“Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.”

“I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.”

“Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction.”

“Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.”

“Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society — nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.”

“I knew my dad was a good man, a kind man, and though he'd led a wounded life, he'd done the best he could in raising me.”

“One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.”

“A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”

“Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.”

“Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies”

“Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?”

“It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.”

“What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?”

“Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.”

“Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.”

“I think my life would be easier, she said,
if I could just get my selves to agree on something.”

“Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write”

“Most people fail to realize that in life, it’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep.”

“It is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.”

“Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle."

-Acheron”

“A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.”

“Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.”

“And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.”

“If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?”

“When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.”

“This life is a test-it is only a test.
If it had been an actual life, you would have received further
instructions on where to go and what to do.
Remember, this life is only a test.”

“Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.”

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”

“The question, O me! so sad, recurring -
What good amid these, O me, O life?
That you are here - that life
exists and identity,
that the powerful play goes on,
and you may contribute a verse.”

“The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.”

“Our own life has to be our message.”

“I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.”

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn”

“She kept her face to the floor, moving in her personal oblivion, her sunflower eyes fixed on the predicament of her life we would never understand.”

“And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.”

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

“In life's most significant moments we are always alone.”

“AND what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays;
Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;”

“Life forgets me but will not let me forget
Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.”

“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.”

“The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.”

“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.”

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to – if there are no doors or windows – he walks through a wall.”

“Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -”

“your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.”

“Imagineminus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you.”

“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change”

“Listen, every object's in flux. The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith, justice, evil-they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.”

“You have to take risks … We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”

“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”

“She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy. Yes, that sounded good.”

“Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.”

“Poetry is life distilled.”

“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”

“Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.”

“Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.”

“In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.”

“In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.”

“Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.”

“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life.”

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”

“My whole life has been one big broken promise.”

“Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.”

“.. and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was”

“All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.”

“no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. i will always be yours.”

“Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.”

“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”

“The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.”

“All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” andre breton”

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”

“This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.”

“There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.”

“I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.”

“To live your best life now, you must learn to trust God’s timing, you may not think He’s working, but you can be sure that right now, behind the scenes, God is arranging all the pieces to come together to work out His plan for your life.”

“Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?”

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”

“Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?”

“THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.”

“Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.

'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.”

“I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.”

“Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.”

“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.”

“Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.”

“She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.”

“I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.”

“There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying.
Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.”

“In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.”

“I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him.”

“Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.”

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.”