Life Quotes

There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth.

~ Toba Beta

On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.

~ Isabel Fonseca

Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.

~ Toba Beta

If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it.

~ Toba Beta

You said the other day life was long,' I shot back. 'Which is it?' 'It's both,' she said, shrugging. 'It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.'Kristy and Macy; p.135

~ Sarah Dessen

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

~ Dean Koontz

Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.

~ Toba Beta

Don't be afraid to be afraid. Have fear, and then conquer the shit out of it.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences.

~ Suzy Kassem

If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it.

~ Suzy Kassem

Don’t take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry your ass off. Have iron-clad confidence, but doubt. It keeps you alive and alert! Believe you are the baddest ass in town – and [that] you suck! It keeps you honest. Be able to keep two completely contradictory ideas alive and well inside of your heart and head at all times. If it doesn’t drive you crazy, it will make you strong. And when you walk on stage tonight to bring the noise, treat it like it’s all we have – and then remember it’s only rock’ n’ roll.

~ Bruce Springsteen

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

~ Garth Stein

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

~ David Levithan

However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.

~ Rachel Ward

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

~ Jodi Picoult

Many people falsely believe that if you want to be holy, you are not allowed to enjoy life...Holiness brings us to life. It refines every human ability. Holiness doesn't dampen our emotions; it elevates them. Those who respond to God's call to holiness are the most joyful people in history. They have a richer, more abundant experience of life, and they love more deeply than most people can every imagine. They enjoy life, all of life.

~ Matthew Kelly

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.

~ Lewis Thomas

It has struck me that people seldom listen to the meaning of underlying words.There are only a few people who recognize the silence beyond the scream,the gentle weeping that hides beyond tough statements.They hear only the words,the sentences,when there is so much more to take in.People who are too self-absorbed to notice,really see or fathom others.Often,they don't even know themselves.

~ Esther Verhoef

I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When people stargazing, they stare at stars,and many other things which they've already presumed commonly and universally as stars.

~ Toba Beta

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.

~ Toba Beta

Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world.Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you.

~ Toba Beta

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

~ William Shakespeare

The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'.

~ Stacey Kade

We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.

~ Anaïs Nin

I'm one of my sensations.

~ Alberto Caeiro

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

~ Mitch Albom

But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.

~ Sarah Dessen

In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat. Look at that little package of silicon gel that's inside your sneakers. It says DO NOT EAT for a reason. Somewhere sometime some genius bought a pair of sneakers and said Ooooh look. They give you free mints with the shoes

~ Morgan Spurlock

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

~ Kij Johnson

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

~ Carl Sagan

And if we do not stand now, then when will a stand be taken against evil?

~ Bodie Thoene

I don't believe that aliens exist,but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.

~ Toba Beta

A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby.

~ Toba Beta

It's written, 'seek and ye shall find'. But first, 'imagine what you seek'.Otherwise, you will end up searching everything everywhere forever.

~ Toba Beta

If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and to have sins.

~ Toba Beta

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

~ Suzy Kassem

The truth, the all moving magic, the single handed spark of it all wasI found art. And this saved my life.

~ Mia Hollow

There are two missions we are obligated to carry out during our life journey. The first, is to seek Truth throughout our lifetime. The second, is simply to be good. Engrave it in your mind that life is just one big board game where you have to make it from start to finish by being good. That is all you have to do. The hardest part, is dealing with all the obstacles that prevent smooth sailing. The trick is, to always strive to be the right person in all situations – regardless of personal cost to you. Your aim is to make sure the right book on your shoulder weighs more that the bad book on the left. The scales are real. Regardless of your chosen faith, there is a measurement system to be found in all of the world's religions. After all, does it make sense for all souls, good or bad, to end up in the same place? Of course not. To really secure the very best setting in the afterlife, the vibrations of your good deeds must surpass your death.

~ Suzy Kassem