Quotes about life

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“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”

“In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.”

“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep--
But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.
Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;
Well, you know, there's no escape.
That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.”

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”

“Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.”

“All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.”

“There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life”

“I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me.”

“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.”

“What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life.”

“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.”

“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.”

“How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.”

“You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.”

“For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.”

“May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.”

“That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.”

“The more I did it―the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high.
It was something. Don't say it wasn't.”

“I’m just trying to wake up - I’m so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn’t care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake…”

“Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, Sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”

“Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.”

“Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.”

“Life's had to break you down so you could be rebuilt”

“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.”

“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”

“I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.”

“Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to
give up all the other important things.”

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.”

“Very occasionally, if you really pay attention, life doesn’t suck.”

“Life: I'll never understand it.”

“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life”

“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”

“Feel the flowing life energy. Can you see the universe unfolding in your mind?”

“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.”

“The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.”

“Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.”

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each othereverywhere.”

“Life is not measured by the breathes you take, but by the moments that take your breathe away.”

“But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.”

“The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.”

“Miracles do occur, and it's never too late to turn your life around and reach for something better.”

“Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.”

“Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.”

“Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.”

“I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain”

“My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.”

“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”

“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

“In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.”

“We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.”

“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.”

“An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else…”

“Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.”

“If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?”

“I can tell you that the end of life is the some of the love that was lived in it.”

“I prefer the school of life.”

“If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”

“I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!”

“It’s a really crappy feeling to realise that your entire outlook on life can be controlled by some little pill.”

“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”

“… It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.”

“I'd rather lose her from my life, but know she was alive and well than lose her altogether to death.”

“There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.”

“Life it too short to deal with crazy people.”

“Life is about coming to terms with the mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep.”

“Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed.
“Well, look at that.” I studied my free wrist. “Denied. Good-bye”

“maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.”

“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”

“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”

“One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!”

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”

“Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.”

“Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open.”

“Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?”

“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”

“You said there was nothing in the world you wanted" The Queen's eyes glittered. "When you imagine your life without him, do you still feel the same?”

“I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself… I'll run to be emancipated.”

“If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.”

“Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.”

“The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.”

“And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?”

“Barrons, Jericho: I haven't the faintest fecking clue. He keeps saving my life. I suppose that's something.”

“"Life has to end." Marguerite said. "Love doesn't"”

“In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.”

“He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.”

“Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.”

“He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.”

“My life is a reading list.”

“May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?”

“Wildflower: Don't let people walk all over you, Buttercup. It's your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.”

“It's like my whole life never happened,
When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought.
I know this dream, it might be crazy,
But it's the only one I've got.”

“God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life.”

“In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.”

“If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.”

“The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.”

“Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.”

“There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them.”

“Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.”