Quotes about life

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“She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.”

“All of the life-changing awesome
words and pictures and ideas
inside your library are useless
without just one word outside
your library: Open.”

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.”

“That life isn't fair?" Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief… lessens.”

“Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.”

“Is this how it goes? You fall in love, and nothing seems truly scary anymore, and life is one big possibility?”

“He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.”

“There are in life a few moments so beautiful, that even words are a sort of profanity.”

“I want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you. -Peeta Mellark”

“Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.”

“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.”

“I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angles of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this case a very old soul. A very old riddle.”

“You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.”

“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”

“Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?”

“She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.”

“Life is a nightmare.”

“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”

“A book had always been a door to another world… a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.

And that love could fill the real world with magic.”

“I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.”

“May you live all the days of your life.”

“Fiction is an improvement on life”

“I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.”

“Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.”

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.”

“I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.”

“Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.”

“Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.”

“What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.”

“Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.”

“The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life.”

“without my wounds, who was i? my scars were my face, my past was my life.”

“The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.”

“It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.”

“It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.”

“We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.”

“Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).
One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.
Rely on your Self; self-reliance”

“Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.”

“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”

“I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found.”

“She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”

“Taking another life, she had whispered, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.”

“She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”

“We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.”

“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”

“Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”

“No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.”

“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”

“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Love is a friendship set to music.”

“I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?”

“Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.”

“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.”

“She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.”

“In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.”

“Live your life, dont endure it”

“Life is a gift…
Life is a test…
Life is temporary assignment….”

“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”

“It is far easier for a woman to lead
a blameless life than it is for a man;
all she has to do is to avoid
sexual intercourse like the plague.”

“She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”

“living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.”

“Accept this: your mortal is doomed."

"Please, Aric. I'm begging you!"

He whirled around, fury in his expression. "You refused - twice - to beg me for your own life, but you'd beg for his?"

I whispered, "Yes.”

“Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”

“fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt”

“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”

“A lot of life is just surviving what happens.”

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.”

“It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because… you are always me.”

“Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

“Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it!”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“In the infinity of life where I am,
All is perfect, whole and complete,
I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself
As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete.”

“Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?”

“And there you have it… if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life.”

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”

“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”

“I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.”

“This is the power of a kiss:
It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.”

“life is to be lived. if you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.”

“The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.”

“There is only one reason I did not go down in flames over the Angers, and that is because I knew I had Julie in the back. Would never have had the presence of mind to put that fire out if I hadn't been trying to save her life.”

“Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!”

“I haven’t the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.”

“Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.”

“You're a Dark-Hunter."
He kissed her lightly on the lips. "What I am is a man in love with a woman. I want you, Amanda. For the rest of my blessedly short mortal life. I want to wake at dawn with you in my arms and watch our children play and fight.”

“Just because life is hard and always ends in a bad way doesn't mean that all stories have to. Even if that's what they tell us in school and the New York Book Review.”

“From our first babblings to our last word,
we make but one statement, and that is our life.”

“Every moment in life is an act of faith”

“You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”

“Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, “is that you still believe you own your life.”

“Just because you refuse to acknowledge something, refuse to look at it or think about it, doesn’t mean it’s not there, that it doesn’t affect you and the choices you make in your life.”

“No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.”

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”

“Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.”