Life And Living Quotes

If you want to dance the dance then you better learn the steps, the world has enough pretenders. If you want to practice sex then you better find a partner, and to love you must surrender.

~ Carroll Bryant

As truth be told, homecoming never gets old.

~ Hlovate

She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ...

~ Ann Brashares

Life was good, one had only to live it.

~ Jorge Amado

Don't count your blessings, let your blessings count! EnjoyLife!

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit.

~ Woody Allen

There is always a better option, than the option giving up.

~ Omar Abbasi

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside.

~ Colum Mccann

Heaven is always there for us, but this life... this life is a gift to us.

~ C. Joybell C.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

~ Diane Keaton

EVENTIDEDark and light strikingeach other,vividly etching wild colorsthrough the horizon.The charm of sunset makes me wantto scurry home.

~ Tara Estacaan

These were good people and they had been good to us and we had therefore had a good time. To conclude otherwise was frightening, raising the specter of some unnameable quantity without which we could not abide, but which we could not summon on demand, least of all by proceeding in virtuous accordance with an established formula.You regarded redemption as an act of will. You disparaged people (people like me) for their cussedly nonspecific dissatisfactions, because to fail to embrace the simple fineness of being alive betrayed a weakness of character. You always hated finicky eaters, hypochondriacs, and snobs who turned their noses up at Terms of Endearment just because it was popular. Nice eats, nice place, nice folks- what more could I possibly want? Besides, the good life doesn’t knock on the door. Joy is a job. So if you believed with sufficient industry that we had had a good time with Brian and Louise in theory, then we would have had a good time in fact. The only hint that in truth you’d found our afternoon laborous was that your enthusiasm was excessive.

~ Lionel Shriver

Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.

~ David Wroblewski

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

~ Orson Scott Card

Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully

~ Kate Spade

It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

~ Jeannette Walls

And I would have answered:The knottier the branch, the more twisted and misshapen, the more bent people called it, the harder it is to find it a place among the smooth planks, the more people agree that it should be thrown on the fire, the more useless it is, the more unsuitable for anything except letting one's imagination run riot, the more I covet it, the more I yearn to weigh it in my hand, the more I long to let my whittling knife be guided by its knots and veins...Yes, bring that piece to me...

~ Sjón

Finally the spring time is here.

~ Karla M. Nashar

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells

~ Haruki Murakami

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ...

~ Robert Browning

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

~ Aidan Chambers

Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York... New York... New York, New York - Fred Ebb/John Kander

~ Karla M. Nashar

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

~ Lyman Abbott

Life’s not a one-shot special. It’s a friggin’ on-going series. Live it!

~ Arnold Arre

And now the thought came to me that I lived much of my life through the pages of books as well. That perhaps I, too, was only a paper figure. A cut-out, or silhouette. Flat.I always thought I knew the shape of my life. Of course I thought I knew about life, thought I knew all I needed - or wanted - to know. And yet, like the opening left when a burning star falls from its perch, now an unexpected hole was left in what was once a solid curtain of understanding... ( )... Sitting under the cold stars, I understood that it was death that made me recognize life, and the existence, or pherhaps the non-existence of my own beeing.

~ Linda Holeman

Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

~ Seth Godin

If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn’t safe to put off what mattered. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back.

~ M.l. Stedman

Muslim children should be raised with the understanding that once they hit puberty they are adults and Mukallaf (responsible for their actions). This understanding is crucial to assist them in passing the tests of youth.

~ Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar

So many things that are so dramatic or exciting when you read about them actually happen so simply and quietly. We humans like to consider ourselves important to creation and to the world, and we expect that whenever death comes it should be with a crash of thunder and wild shouts or something, or with soft music around and people looking grave and serious. We always have it that way in the theatre because it makes us believe in our importance. Most of our life is a matter of dressing ourselves up to believe in just that, dressing ourselves in attractive clothes, in titles, in reputations. Actually, at base we all realize that we're just a frightened bundle of animals, still afraid of the unknown, and still afraid of thousands of things that can separate us from life, and trying to shield ourselves from our own smallness.

~ Louis L'amour

One cannot live on anger, my son.

~ Michelle Cohen Corasanti

In general, things either work out or they don’t, and if they don’t, you figure out something else, a plan B. There’s nothing wrong with plan B.

~ Dick Van Dyke

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.

~ André Gide

In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with an immortal Alice at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles - no matter the imminent peril - these asides of the spirit ... are the highest form of consciousness.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.

~ Samuel Beckett

When you get up in the morning, you select what you want to wear, however you do not realise you can also select what thoughts you are going to have. Your clothe leaves an impression on other people, your thoughts leaves an impression on you, choose wisely - Carsten Ostergaard Pedersen-

~ Carsten Ostergaard Pedersen

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

~ Steve Martin

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

~ Dinaw Mengestu