Life Quotes

Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler, and those whom your right hands possess (slaves). Indeed, Allah does not like those who are proud and boastful.[Al-Qur'an Surah Nisa 4:36]

~ Asma Naqi

I've been alone since my mom met Scott.He sucked the nectar from her heartlike a famished butterfly. No nurture,no nourishment left for Kristina.A vacation is a poor substitutefor love.

~ Ellen Hopkins

It made a big difference in my life to grow up with a dad who wasn't afraid of how great my mom was.

~ Steve Maraboli

onething i have learnt is that parents should treat their kids in a way they would love in return, because growing up litteraly makes you a kid again. you will get it too.

~ Mohlalefi J Motsima

Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she'll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay?

~ Sonia Sotomayor

He has little hope that university, when he gets there next year, will be any different. Like right now, all these pupils taking notes as if their life depended on it. All for what? he wants to shout. To get into the top university, so that you can somehow convince yourself you are better than the great unwashed? So that your parents can convince themselves that they are better parents than the great unwashed? So that Mum and Dad’s fourteen-hour days at the office, paying for a fucking private education you never asked for, wasn’t just a pathetic waste of a life?

~ Tabitha Suzuma

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

~ Raquel Cepeda

Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that I'm older.

~ Steve Maraboli

Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one can get me here. No one even knows I'm here. I won't get any nasty letters and I won't get any nasty phone calls and I won't get any nasty visitors. It's like a sanctuary. I feel as if I'm fifteen again, with nothing to worry about but my Homework. (And I haven't even got any of that.)

~ Sophie Kinsella

He winced at her efforts to mollify him. Why didn't she say she was disgusted with his behaviour, with his long absence, his infrequent superficial letters? And if she did say it - would he defend himself? Would he give reasons, try to explain how meaningless every endeavour seemed to him? No. For then she would start crying again, he would tell her to stop being silly, she would ask for details, and he would tell her to mind her own business.

~ Rohinton Mistry

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

~ Jodi Picoult

I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.

~ Markus Zusak

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding

~ Veronica Roth

But there’s that thing with secrets, too, how they take over your head, feeding on your every thought, growing bigger all the time until the day comes they’re so heavy you can’t walk.

~ Debbie Howells

Every Single Number on the Clock knows all my Secrets.

~ Mian Adeel Mushtaq

Just because you knew it, doesn't mean you must reveal it. There are circumstances in life that should remain as secrets.

~ Joe Mari Fadrigalan

An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. I learned that. This kind of story, this kind of things kept secrets -they have the power to keep your head in forever, and most of all for yourself.

~ Deb Caletti

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

~ Liane Moriarty

With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.

~ Frederick Buechner

Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.

~ Richie Norton

I’ve given up already in life but something or someone keep pushing me to keep going.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

But first you have to fight, to try other ways. If your life displeases you, my lad, try to change it. Don't give in to defeat so easily. Death is the only sure defeat. It is the end of everything.

~ Félix J. Palma

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

~ Anthony Burgess

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

~ Philip Pullman

Be Brave. Remember, life is a gift.

~ Nicola Yoon

Life only gives opportunities, not offers

~ Vignesh. S

My life held endless prospects, and I could've lived it so many different ways.

~ Anna Jarzab

Difficult times give an opportunity to understand, who is your good friend and who is just a friend.

~ Sukant Ratnakar

Sharks don’t eat seafood because they like it, but because chicken can’t swim.

~ Michael J. Sullivan

The cheapest route to a new opportunity is conversation.

~ Mario L Castellanos

Life is about changes and opportunities. We don’t always get a perfect picture.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Everyone dies, but does everyone really live?

~ Johan Coetzer

Life is full of opportunities although there are hurdles that needs to be overcome.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

today's pain is yesterdays latent gain we did not take

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Rename your “To-Do” list to your “Opportunities” list. Each day is a treasure chest filled with limitless opportunities, take joy in checking many off your list.

~ Steve Maraboli

Today you will have countless opportunities to take action towards any dream or goal you've ever had. No matter how long you’ve waited, it’s never too late. Let today be the day you give life to your dreams and goals. Don't throw away another day!

~ Steve Maraboli

I read somewhere once that getting lost is the best way to find yourself.

~ Joanne Clancy

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

~ Jonathan Swift

I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the “activist clubs,” and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of. Trust me. The problem is not being taken care of.

~ Blake Nelson

Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we've stopped enjoying our lives?

~ Lucy Sykes