Quotes about life

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“They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.”

“The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story?”

“Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.”

“When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.”

“Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.”

“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”

“Learning

To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.”

“There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is
that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow
through on some things.”

“Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?”

“I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab’s bed.

(My life. Hell’s bells.)”

“Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.”

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”

“No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.”

“Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.”

“By the time I finish with the two of you, you will be begging me to let you die. (Desiderius)
Desi dearest, I have never begged a day in my life, and the sun will surely splinter before I ever plead for anything from the likes of you. (Kyrian)”

“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

“We are each the love of someone's life.”

“If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours.”

“We just had a near-life experience!”

“I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case.”

“It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.”

“Such was a poet and shall be and is
-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.”

“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”

“That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.”

“But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.”

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”

“later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.”

“Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

“Where there is life, there is hope.”

“Maybe that's what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”

“But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope),…”

“I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.”

“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”

“Very early in my life it was already too late.”

“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness…”

“Life's a show and we all play a part
And when the music starts
We open up our hearts”

“I was the life and she was the soul of every party.”

“For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that I'm going to make us all fall down.”

“Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.”

“They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.”

“People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.”

“If only it were so easy to pick up the broken pieces of life, glue them back together, and cover them with paint like nothing had ever happened.”

“All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.”

“Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.”

“Life is stronger than death.”

“The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.”

“I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.”

“Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.”

“Don’t aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes.”

“Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.”

“Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.”

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”

“Love makes life a little brighter”

“Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way”

“Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair..”

“I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.”

“Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.”

“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”

“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.”

“Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.”

“The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life… He played that which he would never play again.”

“But what is life if you don't live it?”

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life”

“Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.”

“Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.”

“Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.”

“My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have Eeyore on them."

"I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.”

“I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born… in order to become the world's strongest shinobi… an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me…”

“My heart shatters. My world shatters.

you will lose what you value most.

It wasn't my life or even Dimitri's life.

what you value most

It was his soul.”

“It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.”

“Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world.”

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

“What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of
attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.”

“Life begins at night”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false.”

“(to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face!”

“Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.”

“My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for
God. Don’t waste it.”

“Sometimes, you didn’t get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good.”

“I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.”

“It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.”

“Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.”

“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.”

“Life is a spiritual dance and that our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next time you are restless, remind yourself it is the universe asking 'Shall we dance?”

“It's going to give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life."
Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do not to give a”

“Not that my regularly scheduled life was so great, but it beat getting judged unworthy by twelve bearded guys named Erik.”

“Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to”

“Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.”

“Drake. He liked dangerous pies."
"Why did he join you?"
"Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it?"
"Focus. Why did he join you?"
"Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache." p. 432”

“No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.”

“No, Michael was all good. Killed, dismembered, buried, reborn…yeah, just another day in the life.”

“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgement. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,” but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.”

“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”

“I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home”

“I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.”

“One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth”

“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”

“Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.”