Quotes about life

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“But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?"

"Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.”

“I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.”

“You love life because life's all there is.”

“If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.”

“The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.”

“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”

“Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.”

“My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.”

“Life is beautiful, just very unfair.”

“We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?”

“Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up.
And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.”

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”

“He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.”

“I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty… This is my highest and best use as a human.”

“A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'…”

“If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.”

“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

“It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.”

“Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.”

“But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”

“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”

“I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.”

“Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.”

“Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.”

“Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.”

“She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.”

“save our emotional responses for real life.”

“Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.”

“Chocolate is not a matter of life and death--it's more important than that.”

“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.”

“The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.”

“Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.”

“You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.”

“Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny…. To work out our identity in God.”

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”

“She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.”

“They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.”

“Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.”

“Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.”

“It's just a crazy damned life, that's all…”

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

“But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.”

“We can't help it. Life looks for life.”

“It's a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain't falling down.”

“The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love”

“The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.”

“No, darling! To die it's easy… But you have to stuggle for life!”

“A little danger adds spice to life.”

“We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart.”

“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.”

“She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.”

“YOU don’t choose your life; it chooses you. There’s no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on.”

“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things… as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.”

“Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.”

“He didn’t want to spend the rest of his life looking like an extra from The Walking Dead.”

“Tell me of a happy memory, Zarek. One thing in your life that was good. (Astrid)
You. (Zarek)”

“But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?”

“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”

“All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”

“I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more--much, much more.”

“Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.”

“Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.”

“After all, life is not a Hindi movie.”

“Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me.”

“Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”

“Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it”

“But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.”

“Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.”

“A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.”

“I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love… there is joy… there is laughter.”

“Life is a state of mind.”

“She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.”

“Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.”

“Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.”

“As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.”

“Who do you love?
It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing.
Who do you love?”

“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”

“I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.”

“Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.”

“And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.”

“You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.”

“It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.”

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”

“This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.”

“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.”

“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.”

“The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.”

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”

“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”

“Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass”

“But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”

“You can get all A's and still flunk life.”

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.”