Life Quotes

Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot more than you think because you are capable of accomplishing more than you know. You have more potential than you think, but you will never know your full potential unless you keep challenging yourself and pushing beyond your own self imposed limits.

~ Roy T. Bennett

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

~ C.s. Lewis

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

~ Wendy Wasserstein

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

~ D.h. Lawrence

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

~ Paulo Coelho

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

~ Nick Hornby

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

~ Neil Gaiman

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

~ Heinrich Heine

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

~ Jo Nesbø

EARLY BIRDOh, if you’re a bird, be an early birdAnd catch the worm for your breakfast plate.If you’re a bird, be an early early bird--But if you’re a worm, sleep late.

~ Shel Silverstein

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.

~ Bruce Lee

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.

~ Julian Barnes

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

~ Seán O'casey

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

~ Bob Dylan

Surround Yourself with Positive People Who Believe in Your DreamsDistance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life.Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.

~ Roy T. Bennett

When you take control of your attitude, you take control of your life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

~ Marcus Aurelius

The Laughing Heartyour life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is a light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods will offer you chances.know them.take them.you can’t beat death butyou can beat death in life, sometimes.and the more often you learn to do it,the more light there will be.your life is your life.know it while you have it.you are marvelousthe gods wait to delightin you.

~ Charles Bukowski

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

~ George Gordon Byron

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life

~ Jack Kerouac

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

~ Graham Greene

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

~ Anne Rice

E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

~ Anne Lamott

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

~ James Patterson

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

~ Thomas Keller

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

~ Ian Mcewan