Life Quotes

You know what I remember most vividly from that hospital? There were creases in the pillowcase. I was in pain when they brought me in. They'd bandaged me up before transporting me, but they hand't had anything to deaden that kind of pain. So I wasn't clear in my head. I don't remember who was holding the stretcher, anything like that. But when they lifted me up, and I looked at the cot I'd be transferred to, even as they tipped me onto it, I noticed the creases in the pillowcase, and it was everything I could do not to cry. You get used to things being dusty and gritty and oily, you really do, but then, when there's something clean, something that's been folded carefully, and unfolded carefully and it's there for your head, it's like your heart, it's like I don't know, I can't describe it.

~ Alison Jean Lester

One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to make their home a place that restores them, nurtures them, and gives life to others.

~ Craig Groeschel

One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

The introvert's anthem for not wanting to hang out is 'It's not you, it's me.

~ Criss Jami

Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.

~ Louise Penny

A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream, which meant it as now an hour-and-a-half commute via the 7:06 Hicksville to Penn Station every morning. (Dark City Lights)

~ Jonathan Santlofer

Anyway, in those years, I was happy, as to one extent or another I have always been happy. The forest was not a wilderness to me, but served instead as my private garden, comforting in spite of its vastness, and endlessly mysterious.The more familiar a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things. I have found this to be the case all of my life.

~ Dean Koontz

HOME is where the heart is, but today, the PHONE is where the Heart is!!!

~ Rachitha Cabral

Why not surround yourself with things that make you content? After all, there's no place like home.

~ Jean Oram

Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery.

~ Robert Ripley

I was not merely cleaning an oven, I was improving the world.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

Dorrie gave Larry's hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses and the life they'd chosen or which had chosen them.

~ Carol Shields

Long has been this road called life. Every time you venture out in this road, remember. Home is within. Home is in you.

~ Minhal Mehdi

The moon rested right above the mountains, a place I call home.

~ Daniel Wallock

Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.

~ Kate Milford

Every city, every town, hides beneath a certain amount of glamour that- either intentionally or not- can misdirect the eye or hide something worth finding. Learning to see through those glamours is part of the process of calling any place home.

~ Kate Milford

Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.

~ Kate Milford

Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.

~ Kate Milford

Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul.

~ Angelica Hopes

If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,—then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

~ Johannes Kepler

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he hadgladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical facultyhousing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a youngboy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.

~ Dan Brown

Life is not fair; you do what it takes and at the end, you are the only person going home with empty hands.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Only where there is life can there be home.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Jill had three basic statements about life,1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.3. No one ever said that life was fair.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, forcoming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.

~ Aleksandr Voinov

So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS

~ Veronica Roth

Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life.

~ Martin Buxbaum

Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?

~ Osho

You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?

~ Shannon L. Alder

It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.

~ Joan Marques

Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever.

~ Joan Marques

While performing the great majority of the actions in their life, people are totally unaware. We tend to go through our daily activities mechanically. We talk without real purpose. We do things without even knowing that we do them. We are not really present to what we are doing. Even if we practise being aware, entire portions of our days can elapse before we retrieve our thread of awareness. In short, we are not living our life, we are sleeping it.

~ Samuel Sagan

Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead. You're a grandmother, Mama! Wally's dead, too. His appendix burst on a camping trip to North Conway. We felt just terrible about it - don't you remember? But, just for a moment now we're all together. Mama, just for a moment we're happy. Let's really look at one another!...I can't. I can't go on.It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back -- up the hill -- to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-bye , Good-bye world. Good-bye, Grover's Corners....Mama and Papa. Good-bye to clocks ticking....and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths....and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth,you are too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every,every minute?Stage Manager: No. (pause) The saints and poets, maybe they do some.Emily: I'm ready to go back.

~ Thornton Wilder

If only I lived in a perpetual state of awareness for the infinite daily blessings I'm given.

~ Sandra Vischer

When we are aware, we step into the moment which is outside of time.

~ Belsebuub

Do you ever feel like this? You're moving through the world, encountering people left and right but there's something not quite present - like you KNOW there's more to them, but it's like they're sleeping. Or closed. And so, somehow, you have to close a little, too. Then you meet someone who side-slides into the room of life and screams, I'm alive! I'm present! Here I am! And you think, There you are! I KNEW you were alive. I've been looking everywhere for you! And you can tell they're awake. And even if you ended up hating them later, you would love them because they weren't sleeping, and with them you didn't have to sleep, either. I'm pretty sure that's what makes real friends happen.

~ Jennifer Delucy

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

~ Bodhidharma

The world is so closed off to the inner beings of ourselves, I refuse to ever lower my energies to that.

~ Nikki Rowe

Success is all about falling in love with one idea!

~ Kabira

Liberation is the shift from 'What if? to 'So what!

~ Aditya Ajmera