Life Quotes

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

~ André Gide

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

~ Mae West

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

~ Jean Rostand

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

~ C.s. Lewis

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

~ Carrie-Anne Moss

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

~ Oscar Wilde

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

~ Deepak Chopra

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

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

~ Marilyn Monroe

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

~ Jess C. Scott

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

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Where there is love there is life.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

~ Louise Erdrich

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

~ John Lennon

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.

~ Henry Rollins

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

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

~ Emily Dickinson

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

~ Stewart O'nan

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Was it hard? I ask.Letting go?Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.

~ Lisa Schroeder

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

~ Sharon Salzberg

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

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

~ Sarah Dessen

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

~ Elie Wiesel

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.

~ Caitlyn Siehl

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

~ Gayle Forman

to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.

~ Ellen Bass

I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.

~ Steve Maraboli

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

~ Anaïs Nin

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

~ Sophie Kinsella

When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.

~ Nicholas Sparks

If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

~ Nicholas Sparks

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

~ Deb Caletti