Life And Living Quotes

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

~ Rose Wilder Lane

When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.

~ Nenia Campbell

But the summer had been a very happy one, too -- a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen delight in wholesome things; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly, to work more patiently, to play more heartily.

~ L.m. Montgomery

No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you.

~ Frank Ocean

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

~ Thrity Umrigar

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

It’s not that I wanted to die . I just wanted to go to sleep for long enough for my life to find some meaning again.

~ Bart Baker

Each day carries in the blessings of God and you have unlimited access to all it offers.

~ Steve Maraboli

Today I realized that I am nothing more than tomorrow's ghost. In a way, it robs my sense of self to know I'm always changing; at the same time, it provides incentive to have the best today possible so I can have a positive influence on tomorrow and, if need be, shake some sense into the living. (Samantha Green)

~ Riley Noehren

We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.

~ John Dunning

I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.

~ Courtney Schafer

We all draw breath and life from the same source of creation.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise. However, it has needed one: which is about the severest criticism our civilization could have.

~ Jan Struther

The real safety net of life is community, family and nature.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Beautiful food and health are priceless.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

~ Aleatha Romig

Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your last because that way you will appreciate every single moment you have. Other people believe that you should live each day as if it's your first because then every day can be the beginning of a new journey.

~ Ellen Degeneres

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

~ Groucho Marx

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

~ Terry Brooks

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!

~ A.a. Patawaran

Me( Notice Me)I was sent here on a journey that has no end.I hear you joke of going nowhere fast.Well, maybe life’s a joke and I’m the foolThat dreams of being first but ends up last.Life’s a trial—a sentence I can’t escape.Confusion and desperation tear me down and turn to hate.There’s so much more to figure out,But it’s growing way too late.If I could answer half the questions in my mind,If I could find the place where I belong,If words were near as strong and deep as the wall of emotions I climbThen sorrow wouldn’t be so wrong.There’s no way to make you understand.An entire symphony could not play the broken notes in one child’s soul.That child screams and no one hears her,Until the tears have dried and now she’s just too old.I don’t want to hear the philosophies, the opinions,The remarks, the horrible reasonings.Words are to pad the mind and fight with the solitude of the heart.Still, silence chills to the bone and tears the soul apart.She never means to hurt or harm, only to belong.To find the truth ‘mid mortal lies, to sing her only song.But someday this race will end, and if she comes in last,I pray the first will look deeper than the others, smile, and then pass.Copyright 1985

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes we need to feel bad to know what it's like to feel good...

~ Nitra Gipson

Policeman says, Son you can't stay hereI said, There's someone I'm waiting for if it's a day, a month, a yearGotta stand my ground even if it rains or snowsIf she changes her mind this is the first place she will go

~ The Script

It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment.

~ Wallace Stegner

Marcus looked down. “Ah, man! This was my favorite shirt. Who tore it?” he asked, trying to pull the ragged edges together.

~ Ripley Patton

Though riches had charms, poverty had no terrors for an inexperiencedgirl like me. Indeed, to say the truth, there was something exhilaratingin the idea of being driven to straits, and thrown upon our own resources.I only wished papa, mamma, and Mary were all of the samemind as myself; and then, instead of lamenting past calamities we mightall cheerfully set to work to remedy them; and the greater the difficulties,the harder our present privations, the greater should be our cheerfulness to endure the latter, and our vigour to contend against the former.

~ Anne Brontë

My religion consists of laughing at myself. My motto is this: As long as there is a me, there is a reason to laugh out loud!

~ C. Joybell C.

I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light!

~ Valerie Martin

Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing.

~ Lorrie Moore

‎Most of the times, we feel more enjoyment from just recalling good memories of the past rather from those moments we lived,not because we did not have a good time but because realization has come late.

~ Dionisis Agelakis

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.

~ Steven J. Carroll

Human beings are not made to take shortcuts,... You're to live your life, moment by moment. Your life isn't here to entertain you - it's to be lived.

~ David Rotenberg

My life is an open book; at least this photo album.~R. Alan Woods [2013]

~ R. Alan Woods

Life is so much richer, so very much more meaningful, if you plant yourself in a place that will nourish you.

~ Ann Shayne

Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect whether he went to heaven or hell. He felt that life itself offered a mixture of the two.Then sometimes he experienced this incomprehensible and supernatural de´ja` -vu, experienced time and place as if he’d seen it all before, as if he stepped outside himself, became an onlooker to his own life. There was no way he could explain what it was thathappened or why his mind played tricks on him like this.

~ Arnaldur Indriðason

Life doesn’t just happen to you. You react to it, and you are not forced to react the way you do. Your heart determines your reactions.

~ Justin S. Holcomb

What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them!

~ Ken Puddicombe