Quotes about life

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“Learning the truth has become my life's love.”

“It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.”

“But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.”

“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”

“Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise
To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;
One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;
The Flower that once blown for ever dies.”

“My friends have made the story of my life.”

“These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.”

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”

“Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?'
'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.”

“And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.”

“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”

“Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.”

“Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”

“Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.”

“Life is short, but it is wide. Genevieve Whitman taught me that.”

“There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.”

“My life flies away like a dream:
Why should I stay behind?”

“Love After Love
all your life, whom you have ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.”

“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran”

“Liberty and love
These two I must have.
For my love I’ll sacrifice
My life.
For liberty I’ll sacrifice
My love.”

“Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.”

“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”

“Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old…

- Wang Lung”

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”

“How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.”

“This long disease, my life.”

“You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”

“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”

“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.”

“It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.”

“to fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that your life and your death
will not be like
theirs.”

“When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.”

“If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?”

“It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny”

“Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.”

“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”

“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”

“The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.”

“I read somewhere… how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong… to measure yourself at least once.”

“People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.”

“When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.”

“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”

“What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.”

“My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared”

“and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her”

“Absolutely everything you experience in your life is a result of what you have given in your thoughts and feelings, whether you realize you have given them or not.”

“Don't think there are no second chances.

Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE…

It's called TOMORROW”

“Christianity is a life, not a doctrine… I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own.”

“Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.”

“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.”

“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”

“Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.”

“… saying that you don’t have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying you don’t have time to stop for gas because you’re too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you.” - The Monk who sold his Ferrari”

“… for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.”

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

“Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.”

“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.”

“If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.”

“It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?”

“… even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.”

“Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.”

“I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but… I promise you, the right man won't care.”

“The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."”

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”

“Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.”

“Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.”

“Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life”

“To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.”

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

“I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow”

“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”

“To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.”

“Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing; but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.”

“Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.”

“I think that when you live in a world with limits… when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life”

“Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.”

“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.”

“Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.”

“You can’t pay for tragedy with more tragedy, or draw life from death.” “I”

“Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important”

“Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?”

“You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.”

“I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright.”

“Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.”

“When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to believe that life is not worthwhile in and of itself. It is only worthwhile insofar as it relates to your crusade. It is a kamikaze mission.”

“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”

“homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.”

“Hey… You.. What's life without eyebrows, freak? Got a new listing for your bingo book right here!! A guyis going to be the next lord hokage of Konohagakure village. Uzumaki Naruto! Konoha-school NINJA!”

“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”

“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.”

“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”

“Life is short, and wisdom long to learn.”

“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”

“She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.”

“All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.”

“There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang”

“I don't think we have a future. I know we do. I want to marry you and have kids and be a stay-at-home writer dad while you take Boston journalism by storm. I want to wake up beside you every day for the rest of my life.”

“One of the very first things I figured out about life… is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.”

“Life should always be like this…. Like lingering over a good meal.”