Quotes about life

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“I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.”

“God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.”

“There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”

“The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.”

“I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book”

“A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct--Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he'd take over the world--my life, if I let him." ~Mercy”

“In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.”

“In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.”

“But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him… or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.”

“Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.”

“The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.”

“Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries.”

“Listen to me, Cammie. There are things in this life…in this world…There are things that you don’t want to remember.” - Rachel Morgan”

“Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.”

“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”

“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”

“The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.”

“You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.”

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

“Books. Cats. Life is good.”

“You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.”

“The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.”

“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”

“Life is simple," I said. "Ale, women, sword, and reputation. Nothing else matters.”

“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”

“If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.”

“There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.”

“For all of my life I have needed more.”

“To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned.”

“If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.”

“This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.”

“It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself”

“Life… is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.”

“Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.”

“To alcohol! The cause of… and solution to… all of life's problems”

“The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.”

“Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.”

“Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.”

“in this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.”

“ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP
Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.”

“He nodded. "And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.”

“Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.”

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

“Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.”

“I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.”

“Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.”

“Live your life so that you’ll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.”

“Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled — to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.”

“Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.”

“All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.”

“Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.”

“I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy, y'all will get yourselves killed. Then don't come crying to me.'
Now that would be a neat trick.”

“Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life”

“Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

“You never know which people will affect your life.”

“And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”

“Which of us is not saying to himself
which of us has not been saying to himself all
his life:
"
I shall alter that when I have a little
more time"?
We never shall have any more time. We
have, and we have always had, all the time
there is.”

“Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.”

“And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.”

“Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.”

“Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk”

“It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”

“The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.”

“Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.”

“For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly.”

“Stone and sea are deep in life
Two unalterable symbols of the world
Permanence at rest
And permanence in motion
Participants in the power that remains”

“A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.”

“Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.”

“When life gives you lemons, make Lemonade!”

“Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”

“Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!”

“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”

“Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough”

“What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.”

“you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.”

“What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.”

“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”

“One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.”

“Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?… And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?”

“Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”

“But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story…”

“…still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life…”

“The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.”

“Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”

“The only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at it”

“Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.”

“Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story”

“I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.”

“It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.”

“Each day is a little life.”

“It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.”

“That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.”

“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”

“Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.”

“Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.”

“We no longer live life. We consume it.”

“Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.”