Life Quotes

Some people go through the heavy stuff. They fight in wars. They're in jail. They start a business and it gets shut down by gangsters. They end up hustling their ass in a foreign country. It's one long list of setbacks and humiliations. But it doesn't touch them, not really. They're having an adventure. It's like: What's next? And then there's other people who are just trying to live quietly, they stay out of trouble, they're maybe ten years old, or fourteen, and one Friday morning at 9:35 something happens to them, something private, something that breaks their heart. Forever.

~ Michel Faber

Don't cry about it. Write about it.

~ Crystal Woods

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.

~ George Eliot

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

~ Faraaz Kazi

Managing your emotions doesn't mean you don't express yourself, it means you stop short of hurting others and sabotaging yourself.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.

~ Jojo Moyes

You are not your emotions and they are not who you are, only how you feel at the moment.

~ Toni Sorenson

I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because you think you ought to, not because you really do.

~ Winston Graham

Focusing on the past is only a barricade to the future. Once you overcome that barricade, the possibilities are endless.

~ Brandon Cella

Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.

~ Brian L. Weiss

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

~ Charlotte Brontë

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

~ Clive Bell

It means that your birth, with all your particulars, is a wildly improbable event, and hence precious. You won the sweepstakes by being born at all. Think of all the wallflower sperm and egg cells. You made it, buddy. Whew! What a staggering wonder! What a thing to rejoice in! The lottery wasn't fixed! God didn't rig it! You won fair and square! What a miracle!

~ Robert M. Price

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

~ Criss Jami

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.

~ Richard Dawkins

For the first time (but how long will it take us to acknowledge this?) in the history of ideas, a philosopher had dedicated a whole book to the question of atheism. He professed it, demonstrated it, arguing and quoting, sharing his reading and his reflections, and seeking confirmation from his own observations of the everyday world. His title sets it out clearly: Memoir of the Thoughts and Feelings of Jean Meslier; and so does his subtitle: Clear and Evident Demonstrations of the Vanity and Falsity of All the Religions of the World. The book appeared in 1729, after his death. Meslier had spent the greater part of his life working on it. The history of true atheism had begun.

~ Michel Onfray

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the fact that this wonderful life that we get here is it. And having hit 60, it's a good time to get resigned to these things and not be too nervous or upset - and enjoy what great times one can have.

~ David Gilmour

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

~ Ricky Gervais

How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life?

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one--that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.

~ Alain De Botton

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

~ Graham Greene

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?

~ Alice Steinbach

Never live your life on the edge when you have loved ones who love you and who are depending on you.

~ Paul Nat

You don't have forever. You have 24 hours each day to live by your values. People remember you only for what was most important in your life.

~ J.r. Rim

Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If a man realizes who he is, he is aware of his value

~ Sunday Adelaja

We are blessed when our loved ones know what they have long before they lose us. It’s the same with people. If they are taken for granted long enough, they can be oppressed to the point that they never experience the joys of life. Life on earth becomes a disappointment for them and Heaven becomes their goal. On the other hand, if they are loved and encouraged and appreciated, they will find all kinds of reasons to keep on living! It is never too late to help someone to see that they are valuable and wanted upon the earth.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Everyone leaves behind a legacy of some kind, but those who approach living with a ‘No Excuses’ mindset leave a legacy of value.

~ Farshad Asl

You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want.

~ Zig Ziglar

Yes, I know everything can disappear in a flash of light. That doesn’t make anything less valuable.

~ Kamila Shamsie

The most important thing in life is not what you are but what you have to offer.

~ Abel Paulino

Its circumference was tiny, but he had a life, and he would not give it up.

~ Robin Sloan

Life will always have the value that you give it.

~ Steven Redhead

The cost of life is simply the value that was extracted from the time available.

~ Steven Redhead

Is it OK to say, these are the things that I value. This is what I'm going to pursue in life?

~ Larissa Macfarquhar

The truth is not simply visible to the naked eyes, not any more. When people believe so much in media reports, history itself may conceal the truth only the chosen ones can see.

~ Aishah Madadiy

Journalism is not like fiction and will never be. In fiction, you can feed people with lies, yet at the end of the reading, people still live the same life - go to work, eat, come back home, and sleep - nothing really changes aside from, at the very least, their perception of the world. But, things are different in journalism. You tell people a barefaced life, they will believe it, and something is going to happen. People will promptly respond to what they believe is true because it relates to their life, and we take life seriously, don't we?

~ Aishah Madadiy