Life Quotes

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

~ Kim Edwards

I knew that change was coming, the way you know things you can't see, by feeling them; by instinct. The way the bees know everything they know.

~ Kathe Koja

I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason.

~ Michael Cunningham

It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.

~ Michael Stein

Everything changes your life.

~ Melanie Tem

That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.

~ Mitch Albom

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me.

~ Mitch Albom

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

~ Charles Bukowski

Even the air seems to have a smell - earthy and rich and complicated, made out of things living nd things dying and things long dead. The smell of the world where nothing stops moving, nothing stays the same.

~ M.r. Carey

Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something. Anything.

~ Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Life won't change if your mind doesn't change. A better life comes with a better mind.

~ Avina Celeste

Life throws up all kinds of people. Some may be kind, gentle, caring and loving; others may be indifferent who live through without making any difference to this world and there yet others who are loud, demanding as well as dominating. It is the last variety that always takes others for granted; they WILL have their way even if it means trampling others and even hurting their feeling in the bargain. They are like predators- beasts of prey. They will pounce on the weak, and won’t hesitate to rip them apart, if it suits them. They sniff out the kind hearted and caring people. Don’t waste your energy in trying to mould them because, firstly, it’s very difficult to change them and secondly it’s most certainly not YOUR duty to change anyone. What you should do instead is to send out a very clear message that your kindness, your gentleness or your caring nature are NOT your weaknesses- they are your strength. This nature of yours gives you the courage and the strength to do what you do. Believe me; they do not have the courage to take you on because they are like bullies who are basically cowards at heart. Let kindness and gentleness be your strength.

~ Latika Teotia

If life has not changed or taught you anything, you haven't been living it right!

~ Trishna Damodar

Your teachersAre all around you.All that you perceive,All that you experience,All that is given to youor taken from you,All that you love or hate,need or fearWill teach you--If you will learn.God is your firstand your last teacher.God is your harshest teacher:subtle,demanding.Learn or die.

~ Octavia E. Butler

I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you seek to please others, you will forever be changing because you will never be yourself, only fragments of someone you could be. You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day. That’s the natural order of this world. This is called the practice of detachment.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.

~ Kelly Barnhill

If you're tired of triviality, maybe it's time you changed your life.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

One day I hope to hear this is the world we live in used in a positive light.

~ Karishma Magvani

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Change is your gateway to opportunity, opportunities will lead you to a new and fulfilling life.

~ Amanda Ashton-Booth

Like a needle jabbed into your arm, reality stings you, hurting you more than your skin and flesh. You realize that you're nobody. The electricity's gone out, the darkness is your sudden enemy...you have to protect yourself from the dark. Otherwise the world goes out, along with the artificial lights from the power plant. The night once again disintegrates into atoms, changes from cultivated to wild, fitting itself afterward into its original black hues, its cat skin.

~ Georgi Tenev

Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

She wasn’t going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened—it didn’t change anything.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Life’s journey does not take place down an easy roadway, as some might imagine. It takes place inside a giant house with a million doorways. Every day of our lives we are faced with decisions to make, doorways to walk through. It can be confusing at times, like walking through a carnival maze. Some decisions we make are big, some small, but they all have consequences..

~ K. Martin Beckner

The most important thing I can add from my own observations is this: Knowing it started from unremarkable circumstances should be a comfort to us all. Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingridients. You can start with the world you've got.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

Remember, life is a bit tough most of the time.Also remember, if it was easy it would be boring.

~ Akash Lakhotia

Aversion to change is denial of destiny.

~ Andy Harglesis

Those who spend all they earn always end in penury.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Change for someone today and tomorrow you will hear them say, You are not the same.

~ Akash Lakhotia

There is a reason life has put you in the current circumstances,Life will always test you, it will always try to make you stronger.Life only wants you to be better then you were yesterday.

~ Akash Lakhotia

Life is limited by death to make us hurry, though we can't change the past, atleast we change for good and to never repeat the same mistakes again.

~ Jinnul Jr.

Our big opportunity may be right where we are right now. We have the sense to realize that a single idea can change the way we think, the way we feel, and the way we live, that right now is one of those moments when we have the ability to influence the future right now. Believe it!

~ Donald Pillai

You do not get to choose the events that come your way nor the sorrows that interrupt your life. They will likely be a surprise to you, catching you off quard and unprepared. You may hold your head in your hands and lament your weak condition and wonder what you ought to do. To suffer, that is common to all. To suffer and still keep your composure, your faith and your smile, that is remarkable. Pain will change you more profoundly than success or good fortune. Suffering shapes your perception of life, your values and priorities, and your goals and dreams. Your pain is changing you.

~ David Crosby

What is happening is something new in my life. I think many people have a sense of shape, of unfolding, in their lives. This sense makes it possible for them to say: Yes, this new person is important to me: he, or she, is the beginning of something I must live through. Or: This emotion, which I have not felt before, is not the alien I believed it to be. It will now be part of me and I must deal with it.It is easy now, looking back over my life to say: That Anna, in that time, was such and such a person. And then, five years later, she was such and such. A year, two years, five years of a certain kind of being can be rolled up and tucked away, or ‘named’ — yes, during that time I was like that. Well now I am in the middle of such a period, and when it is over I shall glance back at it casually and say: Yes, that’s what I was.

~ Doris Lessing

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

~ Luigina Sgarro

We think the world is steady, rolling through space beneath our feet, day and night, rain and sunlight. And then, one day, you just fall off the planet and drift away, into outer space, and everything you thought was true all the laws that bound your life before, all the rules and norms that kept things in place, that kept you in place, they're gone. And nothing makes sense anymore. Gravity is gone. Love is gone.

~ Nickolas Butler

Take a close look at nature and you’ll see that every living creature is wired for mutation and variation. The fact that people can say, “I’m not the same person I used to be,” is the greatest of all miracles.

~ Toni Sorenson

You are constantly becoming what you have been deserving to be, and if you do not like the scripting, you have all the mens to change it for better.

~ Sandeep Sahajpal

Change is constant, but no amount of change will turn the attitude of vulture to that of eagle.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change.

~ Kayla Krantz