Life Quotes

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

~ Brian Tracy

It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.

~ Steve Maraboli

This autumn-why am I growing old?bird disappearing among clouds.

~ Bashō Matsuo

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

~ Joseph Campbell

Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

~ Philip Pullman

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

~ Sarah Dessen

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

~ Graham Greene

Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.

~ Phil Lester

The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

~ Sarah Dessen

Life may not be pretty but it's always beautiful. We may only see the ugliness on the surface. The shit that only the world chooses to notice. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there's no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are and love freely without judgement, it's really beautiful.

~ S.l. Jennings

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

~ Tori Amos

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

~ Cecelia Ahern

You know, considering your IQ, you're really socially retarded sometimes.

~ Shannon Delany

Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers.

~ Gretchen Mcneil

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

~ John Ruskin

Life is just too much for me. I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast... We're not really prepared...What did you want... A chance to warm up first?

~ Charles M. Schulz

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.

~ Ally Condie

Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.

~ Vera Nazarian

Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ you are. That’s my definition anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. So now you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life.

~ Ray Bradbury

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

~ Anthony Robbins

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself. More powerfully and persuasively than from the shalt nots of the Ten Commandments, I learned the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. A Wrinkle in Time described that evil, that wrong, existing in a different dimension from our own. But I felt that I, too, existed much of the time in a different dimension from everyone else I knew. There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger. My real, true world. My perfect island.

~ Anna Quindlen

Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you.They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine of everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire. Love them no matter what.

~ Nikki Sixx

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

~ John Lennon

I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

~ Criss Jami

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

~ Elizabeth Taylor

It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.

~ Mary Roach

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

~ Derek Landy

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

~ Björk

Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!

~ C. Joybell C.

Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.

~ Santosh Kalwar

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

~ Lorrie Moore

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

~ Austin Kleon

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

~ Stephen King

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

~ Haruki Murakami

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them--as many as there are people--because each person perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect, for a moment, or more rarely, for a lifetime, but mostly we are alone, each living in our own world, suffering our small deaths.

~ Charles De Lint

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

~ Andrew Davidson