Life And Living Quotes

There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.

~ Jessica Sorensen

There is a whole lot more to life than winning.

~ Jojo Moyes

We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.

~ Isaac Marion

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.

~ Frederick Buechner

The path of your life can change in an instant.

~ Ann Brashares

When the things you love exist only inside your memory they cannot be destroyed or taken from you.

~ Marina Tavares Dias

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

~ Isaac Marion

I honestly wish I could believe that things will end perfectly with one big bright happy ending. But these last few days have taught me that life isn't made up of shiny moments. Life is hard; it's gritty. One day you are filled with joy and the next, you are crawling through the muddy trenches with no inkling of when you might be able to climb your way back up again. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)

~ Rebecca Gober

Don't be afraid to let your past and present come together to create something new

~ Michelle D. Argyle

Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.

~ Helen Humphreys

Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.

~ Robert Fulghum

If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times we run away from ourselves.

~ Glenn Beck

Some people may like you, and some people may not, keep living your life dreams, you will succeed!

~ Nitra Gipson

Keep in mind too, our failures serve to teach us, and usually teach us more than our successes do. What we may perceive as a failure is also an opportunity for someone else to rise to the occasion and perform a mitzvah, or mitzvot. Do not begrudge someone their joyous performance of mitzvot. Sometimes, perhaps even more often then you may think, what we consider our failures were blessings in disguise for ourselves, or others, or everyone. Abraham did not change the world just because he himself changed, and followed his own destiny. He changed the world through his giving others opportunities to rise to their own greatness.

~ Laura Weakley

So if the ties that bind ever do come looseTie them in a knot like a hangman's nooseCause I'll go to heaven or I'll go to hellBefore I'll see you with someone else.

~ The Band Perry

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

~ Sarah Strohmeyer

If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.

~ Brian Maclearn

Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Some of us are crèmes brûlées, unfortunately in the presence of those who would rather have corn dogs. We can try to degenerate into corn dogs to make them happy, or we can just accept the fact that we were made for Paris!

~ C. Joybell C.

There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three—body, mind, or soul—can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression.

~ Wallace D. Wattles

You're only as sick as your secrets.

~ Rick Warren

This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was beautiful. Even the dirty little pads of her feet were beautiful. I cursed myself then. For once, heaven had sent me Beauty in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down. How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?

~ Roman Payne

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.

~ Margaret Atwood

Maintain a receptive attitude!

~ Tae Yun Kim

I have at least the whole of my life to answer a question: Who am I? And who is the other? A gust of wind at dawn? A motionless landscape? A trembling leaf? A coil of white smoke above a mountain? I write all these words and I hear the wind, not outside, but inside my head. A strong wind, it rattles the shutters through which I enter the dream.

~ Tahar Ben Jelloun

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

~ John Geddes

I’ll try just putting one foot in front of the other, and walk a step at a time without rushing. So I can burn the path into my memory while I can still see it. So that when all this is over, I can find my way back. Because I intend to come back. Hopefully with all of us together.

~ Yukako Kabei

So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger.

~ Victor Hugo

There is a little word that we can say to others now. Thank You Very Much.

~ Marya Sy

And the uniqueness of every momentseeks the path from pain to a pearl.

~ Lina Kostenko

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.

~ Yann Martel

The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.

~ Chandrashekar

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.

~ Richard Ford

there is no understanding between me and this worldthey don't understand me and i don't care them.

~ Adnan Khan

There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.

~ Claire Cross

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget.

~ Jim Butcher

Once you pass a certain age, life becomes noting more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a comb losing teeth. And the only things that come to take their place are worthless imitations. Your physical strength, your hopes, your dreams, your ideals, your convictions, all meaning, or, then again, the people you love: one by one, they fade away. Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you lose them you can never get them back. Your search for replacement never goes well. It’s all very painful- as painful as actually being cut with a knife.

~ Haruki Murakami

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

~ Margaret Mitchell

If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound.

~ Steve Martin