Life Quotes

Always recycle wasted time

~ Benny Bellamacina

Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

~ J.a. Redmerski

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

~ Kami Garcia

The best way to move forward is to stop

~ Benny Bellamacina

Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.

~ Wil Zeus

Rules are made to be broken. - Jared

~ Martha Sweeney

He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other’s suffering, and wedidn’t now.

~ R.k. Lilley

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.

~ Haruki Murakami

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

~ Nora Roberts

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

~ Madonna

On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.

~ Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows.

~ A.h. Septimius

What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and I; and there in the company of other insomniac souls we would look out at the vast expanse of lights and glamour. We watched the towers as they climbed higher, and higher, as humanity reached for the skies.

~ Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

Talents too many, not enough of any.

~ Naomi Wood

If you can't get everyone on your side, make sure they're right behind you.

~ Benny Bellamacina

Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.

~ Santonu Kumar Dhar

. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

~ Anne Brontë

At the end, we will arrive where we started.

~ Aditya Ajmera

The only candid thing in life is time, nothing else flows seamlessly

~ Akul Singh

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

~ Giovanni Boccaccio

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

~ Stefan Zweig

Somewhere between what is...and what can be...begs the question...what are you meant to be?

~ Manoj Vaz

Always stay one step a head, unless you’re already there

~ Benny Bellamacina

What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

~ Sharon Creech

Today's politicians are like policemen on traffic duty. They are just dealing with traffic right in front of them. Yet they want to be the Superintendent based on that alone. The politicians and the bigwigs in finance have no ambition. There are too many who confuse the power that they got by their position as their own ability.

~ Jirō Shirasu

If you are not working towards something, your life will end with nothing.

~ Habeeb Akande

Roger was not personally ambitious, he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.

~ John Lanchester

There comes a time in everyone’s life—and I do mean in everyone’s life—when you ask yourself what it is that you’ve been doing with your life. Sometimes you even realize that whatever you’ve been doing all your life, you’ve been doing it wrong. Dead wrong… Son, you want that realization to hit you when you’re 70? Or 50? Or when you’re still young, with your whole life still ahead of you?

~ Ali Sheikh

It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.

~ Fernando Lachica

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.

~ Jackson Pearce

So it seems as though this part of us that is living a life on Earth is only a small piece or splinter of a much larger us. That we are many rather than one, or rather pieces of a more complex whole. We are only able to focus on the splinter we perceive as our totality. That is a good thing, because if we were aware of the complexity of it we would not be able to function in this world or reality. We are only able to see the facade that masks a much larger picture. Only now are we being allowed to peek behind the veil.

~ Dolores Cannon

Men are what they are because of what they do, not what they say.

~ Fredrik Backman

She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. she was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father staggering home drunk.She was all of these things and of something more that did not come from the Rommelys nor the Nolans, the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something different from anyone else in the two families. It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.

~ Betty Smith

The kinds of people we meet in our life have a huge impact on the kind of person we become.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own.

~ Marcel Proust

But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with thick, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.

~ Milena Michiko Flašar

Some people are like singularities. Get close enough and you will be uncontrollably consumed in an infinite attraction and will cease to exist apart from them.

~ J.s.b. Morse