Life Quotes

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

~ Oliver James

Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.

~ Roy T. Bennett

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?

~ Mary Manin Morrissey

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

~ Sophie Kinsella

A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.

~ C. Joybell C.

Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.

~ Sarah Dessen

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You are not rich until you have a rich heart.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.

~ Roy T. Bennett

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

~ Veronica Roth

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

~ Thomas Keneally

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

~ Randy Pausch

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

~ Henry Miller

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

~ Monica Ali

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

~ Gerard Way

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

~ Paulo Coelho

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

~ Haruki Murakami

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.

~ Nicholas Sparks

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

~ Neil Gaiman

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.

~ Roy T. Bennett

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

~ J.k. Rowling

I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.

~ Charles M. Schulz

How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.

~ Steve Maraboli

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

~ Saul Bellow

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

~ Lily Tomlin

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

~ Isaac Asimov

How people treat you is their karma, how you react is yours.

~ Wayne W. Dyer

Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams:Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.

~ Roy T. Bennett

It’s your life, you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.

~ Roy T. Bennett