Life Quotes

I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations, those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise how much we rely on the ordinariness of everyday life. When love is gone – when our entire world is gone – only then do we understand those moments are what we live for.

~ Dianna Hardy

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.

~ Don Polson

Can't look at the damage that's been done, it's not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can't change what I've done, only what I'm gonna do.

~ Jordan Ghere

Who are you if nobody knows your story?

~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi

But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.

~ Lorrie Moore

Hate is infectious, but so is love, the difference between the two is one takes effort and the other one doesn’t.

~ Dave Guerrero

Life....Isn't a roller coaster, it isn't unexpected or surprising. It's not a free ticket to go along for the ride... Simply put, Life is life. Its who you are, what you do that defines you and your life, so choose ... but choose wisely, because life is here to stay...

~ Bilal Hussain

It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

~ Jaclyn Moriarty

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

~ Seneca

there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.

~ Charles Bukowski

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.

~ Tim O'brien

It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Living on steam isn't easy.

~ Jessica Fortunato

Let me live my final days whole.Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.

~ Susie Clevenger

And what cats have to tellon each return from hellis this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not knowthat dying is what, to live, each has to do.

~ Alastair Reid

I eat you, life; you make me living eat.

~ William Kean Seymour

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

~ Bear Grylls

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

~ Natalie Goldberg

I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person.

~ Tom Walsh

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

~ Olive Schreiner

I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.

~ Kellie Elmore

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

~ A.d. Sams

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

~ Abigail Padgett

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

~ John Piper

He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to a pearl; the color subtle and the luster soft, but still vibrant. In spite of the tragedy that could come with it, it was not a dying state. It was a state of living…sometimes much more brilliantly than people could cope with, including the Fey individuals themselves.

~ T.a. Miles

That’s the thing about living vicariously, it’s so much faster than actual living.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

Scars are an affirmation of living.

~ Joshua Wisenbaker

Dream sets us on fire.Dream gives us direction.Dream betters our potential.Dream helps us prioritize.Dream adds value to our work andlife.Dream colors our future.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

~ Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within.

~ Kristie Levangie

Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody.

~ T.a

I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living.

~ Kim Krizan

A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.

~ Deanna Vasquez