Life Quotes

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

~ Os Guinness

When you forget what you ultimately stand for, you rejoice in blinding ignorance. Missing the bigger picture for the near pleasure is what humans and all living beings stand for. I guess there is no alternate way either. Because it is after all a game that all are destined to play until they end up dead.

~ Rakesh Ranjan

I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.

~ Carol Rifka Brunt

Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.

~ Travis Berketa

There are people who will always doubt you and you have to live with it. It only gets a lot worse when you have to die with it!

~ Rakesh Ranjan

One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate.

~ Darmie O-Lujon

Conflict never lies between two people. It always lies between rigid beliefs about the other person and the contradictions they show you. Conflict is always an inside job, but until you recognise this, it is easier to blame the other person.

~ Esther Veltheim

Work harder to become better person. There is no guarantee how long we are going to be here. Enjoy life.

~ Independentzen

We live and learn, change and grow. Older, but not always wiser. Stronger but not necessarily smarter. Life is a dance of steps taken forward and backwards, time spent standing still, and twirling in circles as we follow our own shadows.

~ A.j. Compton

It’s easy to think that if we had a different house, different car, different job, different relationship, different city, everything would be different; that we would feel different then.The problem is, you are the main character in the story that is your life. No matter how much you alter the setting of that story, you can’t escape from yourself. There are many factors which contribute to your experience on this planet, but ultimately, you are the one creating your experience here. In order to get to the life you are here to live, you must begin by becoming the person you are here to become.

~ Stephen Lovegrove

We need you.I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.

~ Ally Condie

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Your life plays out as a reflection of your genetic makeup and potentiality as expressed through your environment and choices. Love yourself enough to create an environment in your life that is conducive to the nourishment of your personal growth. Allow yourself to let go of the people, thoughts, and situations that poison your well-being. Cultivate a vibrant surrounding and commit yourself to making choices that will help you release the greatest expression of your unique beauty and purpose.

~ Steve Maraboli

To share is precious, pure and fair.Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?

~ Marvin Gaye

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

~ Adrian Tan

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.

~ Adrian Tan

Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.

~ Robert Newton Peck

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

~ Neil Gaiman

From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the most. She was the force around which our world turned. Unlike our father, who spent his life in the clouds, my mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all of our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdrom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.

~ Nicole Krauss

...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.

~ René Descartes

It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.

~ David Lynch

Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why I feel so strongly that if you have the opportunity to surround yourself with people who aren't jerks, you should not just take it, but grab it, seize it, squeeze the living hell out of it.

~ Clinton Kelly

Some people are hard to forget, but some people are hard to remember.

~ Phil Volatile

A good life is the result of a thousand small choices and so is a bad one.

~ Karina Bliss

If you agree that the person you were few years ago will take advice from the person you are now, you have made a clear progress in life.

~ Dhaval Gajera

The life that you are about to embrace is not that of a soldier or a commando. It is the way of the assassin.

~ Shatrujeet Nath

The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE. That is why never get into any kind of relationship with a married person because soon you will realize that you were just another episode in their life.

~ Kakkz

I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened,' the writer responds. 'This...and this...and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home.

~ Stephen King

You absolutely will never get everything you hope for. You imperatively HAVE to make the best of what you have. But something that you MUST have and cannot ever ignore is your relationship with people. Always work on that. Understand it as you live. Although people should never complete you as a person, you must have them in your life. That doesn't mean forever, it just means you need people and people need you NO MATTER WHAT.

~ Diana Jaber

Find the gold in every moment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Advice is autobiography.

~ J.r. Rim

Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life was full of so many possibilities - why should you spend even one day of it being bored?

~ Mia Sheridan

Female is female.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Woman is woman.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nevertheless, I sought counsel from my leaders and obeyed, even when I knew their advice would make my life more complicated. I decided it was not for me to question and that if some advice caused temporary pain for me, it must be something I should experience.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way.

~ Robert Tew