Life Quotes

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

~ Tennessee Williams

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

~ Steve Jobs

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

~ Alice Walker

In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.

~ Lemmy Kilmister

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

~ Robert Cormier

I had a dream about you. You were lost in a daydream, when I walked in and you began screaming. But I know that could never actually happen. In real life I only enter people’s nightmares.

~ Bauvard

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

~ Ann Brashares

Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!

~ Steve Maraboli

Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

~ George Carlin

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

~ Roy T. Bennett

He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy.

~ Cassandra Clare

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

~ Stefan Zweig

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

~ Woody Allen

You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But you are not to interfere in their growth, in their potential. You are not to impose yourself upon them. They are not going to live in the same times, they are not going to face the same problems. They will be part of another world. Don´t prepare them for this world, this society, this time, because then you will be creating troubles for them. They will find themselves unfit, unqualified.

~ Osho

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

~ Kristin Cast

We all know we're going to die, what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

~ Anne Lamott

I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

~ John Corey Whaley

I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.

~ Stephenie Meyer

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.

~ Toba Beta

I don’t know what it means to live.

~ Haruki Murakami

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

~ Miguel Syjuco

Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.

~ Daniel Radcliffe

Participate in your dreams today. There are unlimited opportunities available with this new day. Take action on those wonderful dreams you've had in your mind for so long. Remember, success is something you experience when you act accordingly.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

~ David Wroblewski

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

~ David Levithan

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.

~ Amit Ray

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

~ Socrates

Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does not exist but it is because you do not believe in it. Even if the sun shines brightly upon your skin every day, if you do not believe in the sunlight, the sunlight for you does not exist.

~ C. Joybell C.

I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me.

~ C. Joybell C.

Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.

~ Paulo Coelho

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

~ Garth Stein

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Things don't matter, people do

~ Rosie Thomas

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

~ Alan Moore

Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again.

~ Margaret Atwood

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.

~ Steve Maraboli