Life Quotes

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

~ Horace Walpole

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

~ Neil Young

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

~ Heraclitus

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...

~ Yann Martel

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.

~ Roy T. Bennett

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

~ Steve Maraboli

Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss.... He turned to me. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

~ Wendelin Van Draanen

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

~ Michael Cunningham

Roads Go Ever OnRoads go ever ever on,Over rock and under tree,By caves where never sun has shone,By streams that never find the sea;Over snow by winter sown,And through the merry flowers of June,Over grass and over stone,And under mountains in the moon.Roads go ever ever on,Under cloud and under star.Yet feet that wandering have goneTurn at last to home afar.Eyes that fire and sword have seen,And horror in the halls of stoneLook at last on meadows green,And trees and hills they long have known.The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with eager feet,Until it joins some larger way,Where many paths and errands meet.The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with weary feet,Until it joins some larger way,Where many paths and errands meet.And whither then? I cannot say.The Road goes ever on and onOut from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone.Let others follow, if they can!Let them a journey new begin.But I at last with weary feetWill turn towards the lighted inn,My evening-rest and sleep to meet.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

~ J.k. Rowling

The meaning of life is that it stops.

~ Franz Kafka

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

~ Samuel Beckett

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

~ Theodore Roethke

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

~ William Steig

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You are in charge of your own happiness, you don't need to wait for other people's permission to be happy.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.

~ Haruki Murakami

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.

~ Haruki Murakami

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

~ Paulo Coelho

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

~ William Goldman

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

~ John Green

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

~ Steve Maraboli

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

~ Sylvia Plath

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

~ Johnny Depp

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

~ Will Smith

Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness, they don’t need the approval of others.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

~ Neil Gaiman

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

~ Paulo Coelho

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

~ Oscar Wilde

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

~ Marcus Aurelius

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

~ Terry Pratchett

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

~ Dany Laferrière

It's never too late to change your life for the better. You don't have to take huge steps to change your life. Making even the smallest changes to your daily routine can make a big difference to your life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them, your response to them is an awareness of you.

~ Roy T. Bennett