Quotes about life

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“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.”

“… I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.”

“I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be”

“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”

“I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anywhere. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life.”

“Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve
got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up
the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money
gives out.”

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”

“Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.”

“Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination… and a little dough”

“Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.”

“Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.”

“You never know when, and you never know who, but someday a stranger will burst through the door of your life and transform it utterly. The world will be turned upside down, and you will be happier for it.”

“Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.”

“The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.”

“In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.”

“When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.”

“Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.”

“When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”

“The truly adult view […] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.”

“There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.”

“Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.”

“Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death”

“Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.”

“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.”

“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.”

“As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.”

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”

“I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?”

“The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

- Karla”

“Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life--not so much with the woman, whom he didn't even know, but with the moment.”

“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.”

“God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.”

“Dad,” I said quietly, “I’ve always made it a rule in my life not to pick fights with children, cute animals, or ignorant old men. I will, however, make an exception for you if you ever touch or insult my wife again.”

“I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.”

“Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.”

“The doctor says there are such boys springing up amongst us—boys of a sort unknown in the last generation—the outcome of new views of life. They seem to see all its terrors before they are old enough to have staying power to resist them. He says it is the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live.”

“May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.”

“We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.”

“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ”

“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”

“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse." Page 316”

“Our life is one, big proverbial coin toss.”

“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.”

“Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.”

“Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.”

“Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.”

“Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?”

“I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.”

“Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.”

“Live it well and this life can be grand.”

“This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.”

“This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.”

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”

“My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.”

“Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.”

“He who binds to himself a joy
Does the wingèd life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.”

“Friends are the support bras of life.”

“I thought you had forgotten me.”
“I have spent my life remembering you.”

“Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.”

“Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”

“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.”

“Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.”

“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.”

“The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”

“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.”

“I will follow you — until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.”

“It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.”

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”

“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”

“That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another.”

“The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.”

“Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.”

“Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon's love life borderline hilarious.”

“I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.”

“God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.”

“What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back to the porch, and snuggled up by his side.”

“Life is hard and then we die!”

“life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!”

“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.”

“What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.”

“You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”

“This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.”

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.”

“Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.”

“It is life, more than death, that has no limits.”

“But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”

“How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.”

“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”

“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”

“You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.”

“One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.”

“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.”

“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.”

“He could not stand. It was not
That he could not thrive, he was born
With everything but the will –
That can be deformed, just like a limb.
Death was more interesting to him.
Life could not get his attention.”

“The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.”

“There is but one task for all --
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?"

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