Life Quotes

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other. Yes, the differences between male and female are biological, but if you look at biology as a matter of percentage, there aren't a whole lot of things that are different. Race is different purely as a social construct, not as an inherent difference. And religion - whether you believe in God or Yahweh or Allah or something else, odds are that at heart you want the same things. For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

~ David Levithan

He didn't know that sometimes, the most awesome and complicated thing you can do is just stick around.

~ Kate Hattemer

DO you think it hurts to die? Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.

~ Jodi Picoult

Once I heard Dantly tell Welton that the Native Americans used to call that particular part of the morning “between the wolf and the dog” because the sky is so deep blue and spooky or whatever that you can’t tell what’s what. Is that a wolf on that hill or a dog? A man or a monkey? A saint or the devil?

~ Adam Rapp

Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place

~ Nancy E. Turner

If at eighty you're not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good walk, a good meal (with all the trimmings), if you can sleep without first taking a pill, if birds and flowers, mountains and sea still inspire you, you are a most fortunate individual and you should get down on your knees morning and night and thank the good Lord for his savin' and keepin' power. If you are young in years but already weary in spirit, already on your way to becoming an automaton, it may do you good to say to your boss - under your breath, of course - Fuck you, Jack! you don't own me. If you can whistle up your ass, if you can be turned on by a fetching bottom or a lovely pair of teats, if you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world, if you are content to get nowhere, just take each day as it comes, if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from going sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked.

~ Henry Miller

Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.

~ N.d. Wilson

It doesn't matter whether you do small or big Job, what matters is job Contentment.

~ Mohith Agadi

Life is contentment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is contentment not a competition.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Once you have the gift of life, you are blessed.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like bandit - will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't. You have to admit that you can't catch it. At some point, as Richard keeps telling me, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

~ Malcolm Bradbury

Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.

~ Ally Condie

I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to make myself matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

~ John Green

Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

~ Arthur Nersesian

Whenever you look in front and see a lot of people ahead of you, take time to look at the long queue behind you. Let us live a life of contentment.

~ Emmanuel Moore Abolo

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

~ Henry Miller

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

~ George Sand

The terrible price of living, ain’t it? To live through others dying?

~ J.d. Jordan

Neither of us fit in, so instead we fit together.

~ Julia Day

Do you know what dead skin looks like when they take off a cast?That was my life, all that dead skin. It was strange to feel like the Ari I used to be. Except that wasn’t totally true. The Ari I used to be didn’t exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn’t exist yet.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.

~ Katherine Sloan

Flora went to the cinema every day that week. She saw the same movie each day, and wore the same dress.

~ Angela Sloan

I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.

~ Xingyue Sarah He

Goodbye. Goodbye. I can't feel you anymore. The night is almost too beautifully pure for my soul to contain. I walk with my arms spread open under the big fat moon. Heroic weeds rise up from the cracks in the sidewalk, and the colored lights of the Hawaiian Breeze ignite the broken glass in the gutter. Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now.

~ Tim Tharp

A hothouse flower trained to bloom out of season and in the wrong climate. I do not belong.

~ Karen Levy

It’s good if you can accept your life—you’ll noticeYour face has become deranged trying to adjustTo it. Your face thought your life would lookLike your bedroom mirror when you were ten.That was a clear river touched by mountain wind.Even your parents can’t believe how much you’vechanged.

~ Robert Bly

I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance.

~ Toba Beta

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

~ Joshua Loth Liebman

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.

~ Gene Roddenberry

The games made me the guy who I'm here now, the articles and the videos which I have watched and I continue to watch make the person today who I am. The life build me as such type of person!

~ Deyth Banger

When a person builds his life on the Word of God, he is not afraid of any trial.

~ Sunday Adelaja

To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.

~ Debasish Mridha

155Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it’s never after accomplishing something.

~ Sam Pink

I'm genetically programmed to be a terrible person.

~ Rainbow Rowell

When there is not a single special person in your life, you have so many special things for saying, and when you have so many special people, you cannot even find one special word for them.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

It will be interesting to find out something about her that no one else knew.

~ Hinako Ashihara