Life Quotes

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

~ John Irving

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.

~ Suzanne Collins

Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.

~ Steve Maraboli

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

~ Cecelia Ahern

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.

~ Oliver Sacks

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

~ Holly Black

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

~ Gabriel Bá

For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I never met a man or a woman who were worthy of it; if I have not written any very good books, it is because I had not the leisure to do so; or, if I have had no children to whom I could devote myself it is because I did not find the man I could have lived with. So there remains within me a wide range of abilities, inclinations and potentialities, unused but perfectly viable, which endow me with a worthiness that could never be inferred from the mere history of my actions.” But in reality and for the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

~ Mary Oliver

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

~ Ayn Rand

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

I can chase you, and I can catch you,but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

~ Morrissey

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

~ Anthony Robbins

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...

~ Sylvia Plath

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

~ Parker J. Palmer

Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

~ Frank Herbert

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

~ Virginia Woolf

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

~ Madonna

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

~ Paula Hawkins

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

~ Woody Allen

Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.

~ C. Joybell C.

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

~ Christopher Paolini

Guilt reminds me of a stray cat. You chase it away and yet, it comes back when you least expect it. If you let yourself feel pity for it and feed the thing, it parks its ugly, puny, lonely-for-attention butt on your doormat and won't go away. Scat kitty cat, scat. I don't need you sitting around here like that.

~ Lisa Schroeder

I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.

~ Deb Caletti

Our life is made by the death of others.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

...Life is much simpler if you don’t notice anything....

~ Tom Upton

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

~ Robert Frost

I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles.

~ Steve Maraboli

The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career.

~ Bauvard

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

~ Glen Cook

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.

~ Langston Hughes

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

~ Michael Jackson

Journey’s endIn western lands beneath the SunThe flowers may rise in Spring,The trees may bud, the waters run,The merry finches sing.Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,And swaying branches bearThe Elven-stars as jewels whiteAmid their branching hair.Though here at journey's end I lieIn darkness buried deep,Beyond all towers strong and high,Beyond all mountains steep,Above all shadows rides the SunAnd Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done,Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien