Quotes about life

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“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy”

“Life is the most spectacular show on earth”

“If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life”

“The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.”

“Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.”

“Surrender… sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed”

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

“I want to know if you can see beauty even when it’s not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.”

“In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.”

“Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?”

“if there is any secret to this life i live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. and there is nothing more to it than that.”

“Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.”

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth… A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match… Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins”

“I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.”

“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”

“If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.”

“Art isn't meaningless… It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”

“What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.”

“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”

“t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.”

“Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn't care why you were asking.”

“What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it”

“Say it,” she said, and he said, “I love you. I’ll always love you. Forever. It’s a life sentence. Now put the damn ring on.”

“You have to avoid thinking of what upsets you. If not, it will take over your life.”

“The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.”

“The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life takes place.”

“Poetry is not the most important thing in life… I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”

“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”

“Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.”

“Things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”

“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us”

“Far from being the father of jihad, Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca.”

“What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.”

“A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.”

“There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.”

“Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.”

“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been.”

“In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”

“One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.”

“Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.”

“Now I can addto my list of life's accomplishments.”

“Your life only gets better when you get better.”

“We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.”

“A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons - make daiquiris.”

“What do I believe that I deserve in this life?”

“One day, you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.”

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”

“More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?”

“The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.”

“Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.”

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”

“I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.”

“At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.”

“I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, "I'm sparkling," you'll have a whole different energy and experience.”

“… the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]”

“Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.”

“Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.”

“So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.”

“She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.”

“Life is divine Chaos. It's messy, and it's supposed to be that way.”

“I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.”

“The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.”

“Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.”

“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”

“I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.”

“I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.”

“As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.”

“I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.”

“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”

“I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.”

“Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.”

“What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.”

“If there is one regret that I have had in my life, it is that I never fathered any children. There are times, when I look at what Fergus and Beryl have produced, when I consider myself fortunate, but there are also times when it breaks my heart.”

“All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.”

“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.”

“Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke”

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.”

“There is one who remembers the way to your door:
Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
You shall not deny the Stranger.”

“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.”

“Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.”

“I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”

“I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.”

“… Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.”

“You are human, you will make mistakes, and it’s one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.”

“The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.”

“He pushed her in. And then he pulled her out. All her life, Lydia would remember one thing. All his life, Nath would remember another.”

“What are you Barrons?”
“The one who will never let you die, and that’s more, Ms Lane, than anyone in your life has been able to say to you. More than anyone else can do”

“life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”

“Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.”

“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.”

“There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.”

“When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle
atop some crumbling building,
spring to life
a resuscitated
angel.”

“I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”

“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”

“He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly.
"You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.”

“I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.”

“How about we just see where life takes us for awhile?”

“A good river is nature's life work in song.”