Quotes about life

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“At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.”

“In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.”

“I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.”

“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”

“Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.”

“It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”

“We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.”

“In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.”

“Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.”

“Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.”

“Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.”

“… how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”

“There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!”

“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.”

“Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!”

“Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.”

“Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.”

“You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.”

“I'm going to a dance."
With Becky?"
No, with Alexander."
Who's Alexander?"
The love of my life!”

“Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?”

“MARIE    I’m saying that the right man for you might be out there right now and if you don’t grab him, someone else will, and you’ll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married to your husband.”

“And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.”

“This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.”

“Death is forever. Death is nothing. But to save a life, that’s everything.”

“Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death.”

“When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me.”

“open your eyes^_^
and look within….
are you satisfied with the life,
…….. U are liVing?????????”

“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”

“it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be”

“Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.”

“I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.”

“It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.”

“Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.”

“I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life.”

“Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.”

“We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.”

“He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.”

“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion
that if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble
Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
Spilled on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”

“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”

“The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P. M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.”

“But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate.

Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.”

“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”

“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”

“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.”

“From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year… death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.”

“My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.”

“To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?”

“Application of your faith will change your life”

“The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.”

“You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.”

“Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.”

“Yeah.” Rhage sighed. “All I want is one good female. But I guess I’ll settle for quantity until I find her. Life just sucks, doesn’t it?”

“The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing and of life is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.”

“A little too abstract, a little too wise,
It is time for us to kiss the earth again,
It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies,
Let the rich life run to the roots again.”

“And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that”

“To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player… The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.”

“I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.'
'Do you mean to say that if I left you---'
'I'd die, yes.'
'Then you love me?”

“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.”

“If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.”

“Rise to the occassion which is life!”

“An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown”

“Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

“My mother's life was way too heavy for me.”

“It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.”

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

“Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.”

“Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript”

“You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”

“It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.”

“Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.”

“Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.”

“I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.”

“With my life comes my heart, yours now to crush or cherish as you will. It is my hope you will have a care in keeping both.”

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

“Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.”

“Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.
Life itself had become a secret affair.”

“I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.”

“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”

“Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.”

“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”

“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”

“He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.”

“Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.”

“I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”

“Maybe it doesn't matter that life never blossomed into something larger than itself.”

“I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.”

“I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.”

“The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.”

“Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes.”

“It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.”

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

“I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.”

“Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.”

“Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it.”

“It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.”

“You think you know your possibilities.
Then other people come into your life
and suddenly there are so many more.”

“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”