Life Quotes

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

~ Gerard Way

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, allof which have the potential to turn a life around.

~ Leo Buscaglia

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.

~ Thomas Merton

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.

~ Richelle Mead

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

~ Brian Tracy

Some things cannot be taught, they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

~ Suzanne Weyn

Earth's crammed with heaven...But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No one here gets out alive.

~ Jim Morrison

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

~ Jostein Gaarder

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

~ Haruki Murakami

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

~ Douglas Adams

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

~ Bertolt Brecht

People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.

~ Steve Maraboli

Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like that, for anybody; you can't fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can't live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can't wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- that's yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you.

~ C. Joybell C.

Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!

~ Steve Maraboli

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

~ Anthony Robbins

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir

~ Khaled Hosseini

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

~ Dorothea Lange

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

~ Margaret Mitchell

Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.

~ Roy T. Bennett

When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

~ Criss Jami

Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps

~ Paula Hawkins

Do not ask your childrento strive for extraordinary lives.Such striving may seem admirable,but it is the way of foolishness.Help them instead to find the wonderand the marvel of an ordinary life.Show them the joy of tastingtomatoes, apples and pears.Show them how to crywhen pets and people die.Show them the infinite pleasurein the touch of a hand.And make the ordinary come alive for them.The extraordinary will take care of itself.

~ William Martin

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

CALVIN:This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it?And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this?HOBBES:I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday? CALVIN:Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.

~ Bill Watterson

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

You know what I think? she says. That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper. The fire isn't thinking 'Oh, this is Kant,' or 'Oh, this is the Yomiuri evening edition,' or 'Nice tits,' while it burns. To the fire, they're nothing but scraps of paper. It's the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories: there's no distinction--they're all just fuel.

~ Haruki Murakami

Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

~ Steve Maraboli

I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer