Life Quotes

I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.

~ Stephen King

If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.

~ Ransom Riggs

A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!

~ Guy De Maupassant

Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead.

~ Heather Vogel Frederick

You must draw from that strength. You must increase it. And you must hold on to it because sometimes that small glimmer of inner strength is all that we have to help us press forward through the darkness.

~ Morgan Rhodes

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.

~ Greta Garbo

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessness and vague desire--It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

~ Edgar Lee Masters

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

~ Ken Kesey

You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.

~ Darren Shan

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

~ Isabel Allende

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

~ Douglas Coupland

It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and sometimes I get thrown out and I hit my head, but I crawl back in again and the moment I'm back in, it just keeps on going and going again...all of this, so I can find things out and then I write about the things I find out so you can find them out from me. All the bruises, all the wounds, all the bumps on the head, all the scars, just so I can take that and I can write all these things, and sometimes I say God, I don't want to be in this roller coaster anymore. But when I think about it, if I'm not right here, then where the hell would I be? On the sidewalk? I wasn't born to stand on the sidewalk, I was born to fly around crazy in the sky!

~ C. Joybell C.

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

~ Jodi Picoult

There is no better high than discovery.

~ Edward O. Wilson

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

~ Sarah Dessen

This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.

~ Maya Angelou

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Although time seems to fly, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the fullest. In each waking day, you will find scores of blessings and opportunities for positive change. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the unchangeable past or the indefinite future! Today is a new day!

~ Steve Maraboli

Enjoy your youth.You'll never be younger thanyou are at this very moment.

~ Chad Sugg

Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life, don't make it wait any longer.

~ Steve Maraboli

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

~ Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.’’Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho

~ Paulo Coelho

When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

~ Stephen King

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.

~ Greta Garbo

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

~ Robert Burns

In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.

~ John Grogan

if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

~ Julia Sorel

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.--Shin'a'in saying

~ Mercedes Lackey

…when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value others…life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest…everyone in the world is different, and that’s ok…

~ Spider Robinson

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

~ Roger Zelazny

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

~ Charlotte Brontë

If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.

~ Ian Mcewan

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

~ Nicholson Baker

Women and men who have established no-lie relationships talk about them with reverence, even when they are not permanent and, in fact, even when they are not romantic. Why? In the no-lie relationship there is acceptance of who each partner is, rather than a shallow idealization. There is a genuine commitment to the relationship beyond the immediate. You each act as though you are in a real partnership that will last.

~ Dory Hollander

Surely the earth can be savedby all the peoplewho insiston love.

~ Alice Walker

Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.

~ Ernesto Sabato

And life is what we make it.Always has been, always will be.

~ Grandma Moses