Quotes about life

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“Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".”

“My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.”

“There are no random acts… We are all connected… You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind…”

“And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.”

“You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.”

“From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.”

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”

“The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion… and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.”

“If you don’t have a dog--at least one--there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”

“This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.”

“My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.”

“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.”

“Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.”

“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”

“Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.”

“To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.”

“You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)”

“We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.”

“In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.”

“There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know.”

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

“Life in us is like the water in a river.”

“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”

“If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!”

“Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.”

“Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commrnce from that point on.”

“Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.”

“As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.”

“Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.”

“Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.”

“I’m like a man who’s been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.”

“Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.”

“What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.”

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

“Some parents let their young kids win at games, but mine never did.

I don't think it was because they were particularly competitive, they just wanted to teach me a valuable lesson.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.”

“Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.”

“Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.”

“Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.”

“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”

“Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.”

“I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.”

“If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.”

“Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.”

“Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.”

“They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.”

“No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!”

“The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.”

“You only have one life, but if you live it well, that’s enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy?”

“There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.”

“The happy man in this life needs friends.”

“Tap Life on the shoulders and fall a little more in love.”

“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.”

“Life is a constant process of dying.”

“Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.”

“Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.”

“What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal… and then die.”

“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”

“Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.”

“I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.”

“And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!”

“Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.”

“In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.”

“My life is not packaged,
Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged
Edges that cut even my friends.”

“… you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.”

“Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”

“I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.”

“If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.”

“There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises….
If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,
not what pays”

“sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency”

“Maybe the lesson is: Know when to brag and when to keep your mouth shut. Or: Sometimes life isn’t fair, even if you are as gifted as Athena. Or maybe: Don’t give away free tapestries.”

“Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.”

“having
someone think of me that way was like discovering
a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.”

“Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame.”

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires”

“Your Life our your lupines!""
Dennis Moore”

“It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.”

“You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.”

“The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.”

“How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.”

“I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.

- Such as?

- Procrastination and rationalization.”

“To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.”

“The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”

“How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.”

“…to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.”

“When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait”

“I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.”

“But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.”

“I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.”

“It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare."
"And what is that nightmare, Craig?"
"Life.”

“I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.”

“… there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.”

“The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”

“When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.”

“Life has gotten in the way of our life.”

“If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over"
- Suze Simon in the Mediator”

“The Warrior of the Light is a believer.

Because he believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.”

“I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?”

“To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.”

“There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”