Life Quotes

I had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing him as Gerald.

~ Nicole Mckay

She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

~ Virginia Woolf

It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

~ Rebecca Wells

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

~ Helen Keller

Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

~ Charlotte Brontë

There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

~ Eleanor Brown

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

~ Junot Díaz

I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.

~ David Almond

Love changes things, hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.

~ Iimani David

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.

~ Sophie Kinsella

There are two ways to live a life either forget everything or, remember nothing.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

~ Steve Maraboli

A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree.Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

‎Today is a new day. It's a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the 'same crap, different day' lie! How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today! Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.

~ Steve Maraboli

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

~ Virginia Woolf

It is always betterto avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.For every one of us, living in this worldmeans waiting for our end. Let whoever canwin glory before death. When a warrior is gone,that will be his best and only bulwark.

~ Seamus Heaney

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

~ Jack Kerouac

Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

~ Emily Giffin

For one day there will be nothing left, yet we will have something. -me-I tried to wait for my life to begin. Something has to happen. Like an amazing boy. I know he's out there. I just have to find him.

~ Susane Colasanti

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

~ Karl Lagerfeld

..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.

~ Jasmine Warga

You have every right to a beautiful life.

~ Selena Gómez

That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.

~ Judy Blume

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

~ Jim Butcher

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

~ Albert Einstein

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

~ Shane L. Koyczan

I realize that life is risks. It’s acknowledging the past but looking forward. It’s taking a chance that we willmake mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven.

~ Carrie Ryan

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not.

~ Carrie Ryan

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

~ Lisa Kleypas

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

~ Deepak Chopra

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

~ Jim Morrison

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

~ Jim Butcher

In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.

~ Vic Johnson

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

~ John Green

The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning:The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest.The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.

~ Walker Percy

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick