Life Quotes

I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels, only when the clock stops does time come to life.

~ William Faulkner

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

~ Leo Tolstoy

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

~ David Eagleman

Fear robs you of your freedom to make the right choice in life that can bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. On the other side of fear, lies freedom. If you want to grow, you need to be brave and take risks. If you're not uncomfortable, you're not growing.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Life teaches us the right path is rarely the easy one.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.

~ Roy T. Bennett

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

~ Patricia Mccormick

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

~ Mary Tyler Moore

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

~ Danny Kaye

Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow—to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested . . . Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

~ Sylvia Plath

He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I can see in him. It's the smile and the pure promise of everything he has to offer. Like he's saying, 'Here I am world, are you ready for so much passion and beauty and goodness and love and every other word that should be in the dictionary under the word life?' Except this boy is dead, and the unnaturalness of it makes me want to pull my hair out with Tate and Narnie and Fitz and Jude's grief all combined. It makes me want to yell at the God that I wish I didn't believe in. For hogging him all to himself. I want to say, 'You greedy God. Give him back. I needed him here.

~ Melina Marchetta

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.

~ Ian Mcewan

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

~ Paulo Coelho

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

~ Gustave Flaubert

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

~ Sarah Dessen

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

~ Marcel Proust

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon Master and knowing there were twenty more levels to go. Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day. maybe it didn't matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn't matter if your friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

~ Ann Brashares

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

~ Louis Sachar

Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.

~ Robyn Schneider

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.

~ Turcois Ominek

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.

~ Mandy Hale

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

~ Drew Carey

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

~ Albert Einstein

Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.

~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.

~ Roy T. Bennett

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

~ Ned Vizzini

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

~ Napoleon Hill

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

~ Oscar Wilde

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

~ Christopher Hitchens

This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!

~ Steve Maraboli