Life Experience Quotes

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.

~ Derrick Jensen

To defend my fear of sudden change, I chose to believe that life was incremental, that the tiny decisions you make every day determine your fate, that your job is to captain an enormous ship subtly into ever-clearer waters. But that’s not how it works at all. Life occurs in moments. You get into college. You propose. You get the job. You get cancer. You get fired. She leaves you...Because I was born in a stable country at a stable time, I falsely extrapolated that change is incremental. But if you zoom out just a little bit, you see that life is soccer, not basketball. It’s revolution, invention, war. It’s big bangs, exploding stars, asteroids killing the dinosaurs. Which means that all the action is in the risk taking, whether I want it to be or not.

~ Joel Stein

Loneliness is something that finds us all when we think about it and when we're by ourselves when we don't want to be. It creeps up when we desperately feel like we need someone special but can't seem to find anything more than a friend that wishes they could help. Sometimes a friend cannot be found when your willing to settle for one. Sometimes it passes quickly, and sometimes it sticks around to try to drive us to insanity. Its like a creature lying in wait to take us at our weakest moment, but only toying with us when we give up to it. In the end it always passes. There is always something to appreciate and someone to cheer us up. We adapt and overcome. Life is a gift with much more to it than a passing emotion. All around us are beautiful things to console us. Life is much more than one feeling. It is as great as we let it be.

~ Joshua Hartzell

The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.

~ Brian Herbert

I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.

~ Justin Smith

I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems.

~ Tim Winton

and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people-preferably our parents, our spouses or our children-for our failure to realize our dreams.

~ Paulo Coelho

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

~ Rudy Rucker

You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.

~ Robertson Davies

When perception and reality collide, we grow.

~ Keylee Dawn Austin

We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment.

~ Rock Peter

I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.

~ John Green

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

~ Madeleine L'engle

You can't force feed a fool. They are blind to their need.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

I don't blame anyone for my failures i blame myself for not seeing what's really ahead of me...

~ Dj-Trippin