Life Quotes

I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This was where war happened, in someone’s backyard. Sometimes it was yours. Often, it was someone’s a world away. But it did happen. In this moment. In the next breath. Every day.Every day, someone lived in the midst of destruction and chaos. Every day, someone’s flower boxes filled with gunpowder’s haze, a child’s laughter turned to tears. There had been a day when someone watered those flowers in the evening’s peaceful quiet and the children caught fireflies in mason jars. And that day will come again, when the crickets and the bullets no longer have to compete for the night’s stage. But for now, all anyone could do was fight on the crickets’ behalf.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Control your desires as if your life depended on them, then your life will do.

~ Nityananda Das

Living beings wide and far are creatively enticed into the idea of living only on the substance of leafy greenery by alluring allegations that seem to make apparent sense. Some want to avoid the dying aspect of life and prolong the bodily functions of their organs within their potential corpses over time and reduce the waste products given off by our walking structures to lessen worldly contamination. Others want to avoid consuming Earth’s usual containing features from being overly exhumed, or because we have never not lovingly smothered Earth’s natural oxygen sucking creatures, and so we do not consume the things that are taking nutrients from us so that we can preserve them instead, because we find it morally dissatisfying.

~ Ella Cooper

Anyone who says Trust me is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.

~ R.d. Ronald

Life is like Alice's White Rabbit. He runs away and does not grab anything, but this is not important: what matters is to keep on pursuing him.

~ Gabriele Corno

The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.

~ Orhan Pamuk

When you move on in life, you always leave behind some things- some myths and some mysteries, that cannot be fathomed by the heart, without going back to the past and visiting yourself again; in that time, at that place. You can only understand such things and solve such riddles if, in your imagination, you can live the life again and be in that place again, where you left a part of you.

~ Q.m. Sidd

When life gets rough,don't panic! Just let it be! Life is leading you to still waters!

~ Dr. Vivencio Ballano

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

~ Jude Morgan

That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death and telling it, “Not today.

~ Molly Ringle

Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention

~ Ken Scott

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.

~ Sidney Poitier

He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things and in the face of his refusal-logical-admirable refusal-to engage with this existence in his heart, in his mind. For the comfortless logic, the curse of clear sight, no matter which string he pulls on the same wretched knot: (a) the futility of seeing given the fatality in a place such as this where a mother still bloody must bury her newborn, hose off, and go home to pound yam into paste; (b) the persistence of beauty, in fragility of all places!, in a dewdrop at daybreak, a thing that will end, and in moments, and in a garden, and in Ghana, lush Ghana, soft Ghana, verdant Ghana, where fragile things die.

~ Taiye Selasi

But life does not consist of words.Life consists of reality.

~ Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

~ Clarice Lispector

Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes

~ Benny Bellamacina

I am trying to both be happy and pay attention to the world around me. I do not know if it is possible to do both at the same time.

~ Blythe Baird

I have woken up…quite sloshedfrom night-mingled rainsa little drugged, by mountain fogsI have been kidnappedfor years....by a mere kiss.

~ Sanober Khan

Having experimented in both poetry and prose, I can say that the two are such loaded words. But neither are quite as weighted as the word “poet”. I think some people can write poetry their whole lives, and never truly BE a “poet”. Whereas I see poets in the wanderers I encounter, the baristas who serve me, and the truckers I, so, love to talk to.To be a poet in my humble opinion is to be a muse of the human experience. I love that I love the idea, that anything can be poetry, it can’t be defined. It’s a feeling, like punk rock. I’m not one for form or structure. I say if your words are visceral and honest, it’s poetry. If you see the beauty of the world and humanity, and you preach it, you’re a poet.

~ Mallory Smart

LIFE IS NEVER OVER.

~ Amy King

Here's to adrenaline. Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol. Here's to treasured pain and purple rain. Here's to chasing our souls, burning across to sky. Here's to drinking the ash as it falls, and not asking why.

~ Virginia Petrucci

My pond life with hydra is over, now I’m into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..

~ Munia Khan

Falling in desire with truth and hope is enhancing our soul with a precious love...

~ Soar

There are things we do that the human mind doesn't understand, yet the same things are meant for the heart to fully comprehend.

~ Soar

Not every given chance deserves love, but every love deserves a given chance.

~ Soar

In dealing with many words and different cultures every day, I have come to realize that the essence of life can be reduced to the magic of three sentences, in the order of their strength: “I apologize”, “I love you”, “Hi”. The use and the meaning you replenish them with become the mirror of yourself, eventually of an entire humanity. (Soar)

~ Soar

Time, so majestically fine, was passing by when I asked him to stop, a while, and lay his imprint upon the spaciousness of feelings: his face, reflected in the mirror of my memories, his smile, envisaged by my eyes, in quest of his new dwellings with wells of meanings. And there, he stopped its moment... and kissed my curiosity. It was then when I felt in love with him.

~ Soar

When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelings are the only form of art which will remain to reign. (Soar)

~ Soar

The experiences, the lessons, and the defeats,They were all necessary for me to be me,took me a while being blind before i could see,had to crawl on my knees before i stood on my feet,once i stood on my feet i found out i had wings,the flight is amazing, i felt like a king,and when no one is listening, i found out i can sing, what happy times and thoughts does it bring,whatever it takes just make sure you are free,free to live, and grow like a tree,The people you love are the branches you need,its not about the type, the color, or breed,Live life with ambition, ambition indeed,Thats what it took, and thats what i need.

~ Michael Perez

and everybody was happy that uncle lee was able to get that scholarship even though you wondered when you could do quadratic equations in your head why you had a basketball scholarship but you always knew that you had to take what they were giving since that was all you were going to get but you never fooled yourself about either the taking or the giving or the needing or the having you just sort of said to yourself I'll have to see what is being offered

~ Nikki Giovanni

life is first boredom, then fear.whether or not we use it, it goes,and leaves what something hidden from us chose,and age, and then the only end of age.

~ Philip Larkin

Always dip your toe in the past before stepping into the future

~ Benny Bellamacina

...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...

~ John Geddes

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home.

~ Christopher Isherwood

Life takes us to unexpected places... love brings us home.

~ Unknown Author 770

There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.

~ Kōbō Abe

This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

Ever theatrical, Jackie also viewed the home as a grand set: a malleable, working stage on which to play out the daily sketches of life...

~ Shelly Branch

Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?

~ James Agee