Life And Living Quotes

Sorry’ is, indeed, one of the most difficult and most powerful words in the English language, provided one can feel and say it at the same time.

~ Uday Mukerji

While some people want to be popular, some of us simply want to be brave.

~ Tara Estacaan

You're the guy who tried to get my cab. I knew I knew you! You scared the bejesus out of me. Come to think of it it was easy to get a cab during rush hour? I am sorry. I had no idea it was your cab. Let me make it up to you. How about a nice hot dog and a beer.Just a hot dog then.Some coffee?Milk?Soda?Tea?LifeSavers?Slurpee?Just let me know. I'm here. I knew I knew ya!

~ Planes

You're the guy who tried to get my cab. I knew I knew you! You scared the bejesus out of me. Come to think of it it was easy to get a cab during rush hour? I am sorry. I had no idea it was your cab. Let me make it up to you. How about a nice hot dog and a beer.Just a hot dog then.Some coffee?Milk?Soda?Tea?LifeSavers?Slurpee?Just let me know. I'm here. knew I knew ya!

~ Planes

Another thought hits me hard as a lawn dart to the eye: this moment is so terribly unimportant to the rest of the world, yet it means everything to me somehow - and it's enough.So I sign and I sign and I sign.

~ Matthew Quick

Life is biting into a cupcake and finding an eyeball at its center.

~ Alexandra Sirowy

But for anything to be alive, it required motion : the current must run, the record must turn, a person must leave or find another path. Without movement or change, the world became nothing more than a stale copy, and this was the trouble with Ba's elegant calligraphy, his patient life, it was frozen in time.

~ Madeleine Thien

Death is the price you paid for being born.

~ Gloria Vanderbilt

Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring none.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Life's like a book: What matters is the hook. Be it short or long, just live it strong. Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

She wanted to read and talk and laugh and watch television and listen to the radio. She wanted to watch the world around her go by, and make up stories in her head about everything she saw...Like a princess in a carriage, surveying her kingdom, preferably one with a magical forest.

~ Jami Attenberg

We're living in a world which gives us no chance to live.

~ Stephin Philip

Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does get you somewhere. Just keep walking.

~ Shellie Palmer

Your promise is someone's hope. Keep your promises.

~ Tarang Sinha

If we don't cherish those who stay near, what do we have? Only longing.

~ Janice Clark

Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!

~ Ingmar Bergman

Instead of lullabies, my mother would sing us songs of the Revolution. Now she sings them to her grandchildren. 'Are you nuts?' I ask her. She replies, 'I don't know any other songs.

~ Svetlana Alexievich

Struggle is like a Tunnel in the road of Life. You have to enter, you have to come out.

~ Shashank Rayal

Ties are straightened and expressions banished.

~ Rana Dasgupta

Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.

~ Anne Lamott

Don’t complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes a bit of compassion and decency is reason enough to do something out of the ordinary.

~ Ariel Lawhon

We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Then nothing became something, and I was born, and I wrought great havoc in the world in the time allotted to me, and I returned to nothingness

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65… and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?

~ Anne Lamott

The real beauty is living life to it's fullest, to reach a destination and live life for the Lord.

~ Shellie Palmer

I'd like to go with you, but I wanna stay home with you

~ Jordan Hoechlin

In this life, you can not understand what you do have not lived.

~ Cyrille Mendes

Desire is to ask for something in silence, without really wanting it, for having it wouldn't fill you as much as having desired it.

~ Isabella Trainini

There is a lot of unhappiness in this world. Try not to feed it.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that light - a greater depth of understanding about life and truth.

~ Amit Ray

Take heart. You're not alone. Every broken heart breathes again. That's life. It goes on. In loss, and in gain.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Maybe there is an invisible world working behind our own, maybe words in the silence, maybe movements in what looks completely still. When every door is closed, maybe doors are opening that can’t be seen.

~ Lene Fogelberg

Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That's life

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We are revolutionaries for peace and freedom not violence. And we are going to fight through creativity rather than aggression.

~ Nurudeen Ushawu

Life is just a dream, to some it's a sweet dream, to others, a nightmare. But whatever it is, it's always short and dissipates quickly.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana