Quotes in the category life
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.
William W. Purkey
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Narcotics Anonymous
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams
Sometimes people are beautiful, not in looks, not in what they say, just in what they are.
Markus Zusak
Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean!
Bob Marley
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
Jess C. Scott
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix
Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears."After all this time?""Always,"said Snape.
J.K. Rowling
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
Nicholas Sparks
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Albert Einstein
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Chuck Palahniuk
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E.B. White
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
May Sarton
These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
John Lennon
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.
Chad Sugg
If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.
Chad Sugg
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
Douglas Coupland
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. Clarke
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Albert Schweitzer
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.
Shel Silverstein
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran
Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
Langston Hughes
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.
Lao Tzu
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
Haruki Murakami
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
Steve Maraboli
If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.
C. JoyBell C.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G.K. Chesterton
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC
Kurt Vonnegut
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
Barbara Kingsolver
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
Nicholas Sparks
No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
Jay Asher
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
François de La Rochefoucauld
You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.
C. JoyBell C.
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Arthur C. Clarke
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Haruki Murakami