Life Quotes

...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

The dead do not hurt you, only the living do.

~ Tess Gerritsen

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

~ Brian Tracy

I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.

~ Mandy Hale

There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.

~ Jim Butcher

There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.

~ Mandy Hale

After listening and getting to know more about you. Also, feeling a deep connection between us that goes beyond physical attraction. I'm beginning to feel for, so much more than the friendship that I waited to grow with you. I'm not going to try and rush things. However, I don't want to wait until it's to late.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

~ Melina Marchetta

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!

~ Vicki Corona

It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.

~ Scott Spencer

How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?

~ Deborah Curtis

Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured. Meggie looked at him in astonishment. ‘You mean you don’t know?’ Dustfinger smiled. Meggie still didn’t particularly like his smile. It seemed to appear only to hide something else. ‘What’s so unusual about that, princess?’ he asked quietly. ‘Do you know how your story ends?’ Meggie had no answer for that.

~ Cornelia Funke

Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,What have you done to my boy?He's not flesh and blood,he's aluminum alloy!The doctor said gently,What I'm going to saywill sound pretty wild.But you're not the father of this strange looking child.You see, there still is some questionabout the child's gender,but we think that its fatheris a microwave blender.

~ Tim Burton

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

~ Aristotle

Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.

~ Ruta Sepetys

In high seas or in low seas,I'm gonna be your friend...I'm gonna be your friend.In high tide or in low tide,I'll be by your side...I'll be by your side.

~ Bob Marley

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.

~ Osamu Dazai

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

~ Criss Jami

We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us.

~ Roy T. Bennett

So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born.

~ Langston Hughes

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

~ Jay Asher

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

~ Brian Tracy

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

~ Michael Cunningham

In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.

~ Roman Payne

What it means to be authentic:- to be more concerned with truth than opinions- to be sincere and not pretend- to be free from hypocrisy: walk your talk- to know who you are and to be that person- to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities- being confident to walk away from situations where you can't be yourself- being awake to your own feelings- being free from others' opinions of you- accepting and loving yourself

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?

~ Douglas Coupland

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

~ Osamu Dazai

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

~ Stephen King

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

~ Don Delillo

First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

~ Virginia Woolf

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

~ Robin Hobb

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.

~ Loretta Ellsworth

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

~ Mitch Albom

When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.

~ Michael J. Sullivan

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

Be where you are, otherwise you will miss your life.

~ Gautama Buddha