Quotes about life

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“One life is an absurdly small allowance.”

“The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.”

“She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.”

“Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.”

“The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.”

“How much longer will I live? (Urian)
You’re immortal, barring death. (Acheron)
That doesn’t make sense. (Urian)
Most of life doesn’t. (Acheron)”

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.”

“A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face.”

“I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.”

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”

“We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.”

“When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.”

“And for the first time in my life, I saw something new reflected in the eyes that saw me. Respect. It taught me a very valuable lesson. That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others”

“I think I wished for you all of my life.”

“I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.”

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”

“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”

“Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder.”

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”

“Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.”

“Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them.”

“I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.”

“We must never shed tears
That is the life form’s defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.”

“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”

“I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down… The other accident is Diego.”

“Life is too precious to be left to chance”

“A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.”

“There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”

“Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law”

“That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”

“Living was okay, but it wasn't the breaths people took that measured a life. It was the moments that took those breaths away that mattered the most. And Dev did that every time he looked at her. Naked or not.”

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”

“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”

“We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.”

“Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.”

“The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.”

“I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.”

“Because sometimes in life Ken doesn't always choose Barbie.”

“At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.”

“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”

“Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.”

“The worst decisions of your life will always be those that are made out of fear.”

“Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.”

“I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.”

“Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.”

“Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.”

“Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.”

“There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.”

“Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)”

“I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.”

“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”

“How long have you been drawing me?”
He sighted. A moment later his hand came to rest in her hair. His fingers twined in the strands. “My whole life.”

“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”

“there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.”

“If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature….”

“Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.”

“Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.”

“It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.”

“He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.”

“(Talon pulled another beignet from the sack and held it up for her to eat.)
That stuff is hazardous to your health. (Sunshine)
Baby, life is hazardous to your health. (Talon)”

“I don't know. But Iknow that I'm at the stage of my life where I want, not.

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.”

“Trust in tomorrow… Every day of your life, there's been a tomorrow. I promise you, there'll be a tomorrow.

—Alex Morales to Miranda Evans”

“Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.”

“Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life.”

“This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”

“There are more than two chances– many more. I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”

“What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.”

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

“The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.”

“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life”

“isn’t life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it.”

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”

“Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.”

“It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.”

“The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.”

“Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.”

“And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”

“Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.”

“Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.”

“It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.”

“investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.”

“Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.”

“The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.”

“You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.”

“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?”

“Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.”

“If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.”

“This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.”

“Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are”

“and that is what heaven is for, for understanding your life on Earth.”

“I can offer you my life, though it is a short life. I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope the rest of my life-whatever its length-happy, by spending it with you.-Jem.”

“It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.”

“Of all the crap, crap, crappy nights I've ever had in the whole of my crap life. On a scale of one to 10, we're talking… a minus 6. And it's not like I even have very high standards.”

“People who love work, love life.”

“No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.”

“a dream can be the highest point of a life”