Life Quotes

There is no more profitable investment than investing in yourself. It is the best investment you can make, you can never go wrong with it. It is the true way to improve yourself to be the best version of you and lets you be able to best serve those around you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64 color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64 color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation. So when I meet someone who's an 8 color type...I'm like, hey girl, Magenta! and she's like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, no I want Magenta!

~ John Mayer

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

~ Stephen King

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Instructions for freedom:1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.2. You have just climbed up and above the roof, there is nothing between you and the Infinite; now, let go.3. The day is ending, it's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, let go.4. Your wish for resolution was a prayer. You are being here is God's response, let go and watch the stars came out, in the inside and in the outside.5. With all your heart ask for Grace and let go. 6. With all your heart forgive him, forgive yourself and let him go.7. Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering then, let go.8. Watch the heat of day pass into the cold night, let go.9. When the Karma of a relationship is done, only Love remains. It's safe, let go.10. When the past has past from you at last, let go.. then, climb down and begin the rest of your life with great joy.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like with parents who adore you blindly. and a big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all its birds.

~ R.j. Palacio

It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.

~ Marian Keyes

Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

~ Arthur Golden

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

~ Henry Miller

Going back to something is harder than you think.

~ Mitch Albom

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

We never live, we are always in the expectation of living.

~ Voltaire

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

~ Stephen Hawking

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

~ Mark Twain

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun, it cannot be contained.

~ Alice Sebold

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

~ Mitch Albom

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

~ Jennifer E. Smith

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

~ George R.r. Martin

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

~ Randall Munroe

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

~ Mitch Albom

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.

~ Melody Beattie

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

~ Ann Brashares

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

~ Arundhati Roy

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

~ Steve Maraboli

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

~ Thornton Wilder

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

~ George Eliot

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Life is a long lesson in humility.

~ J.m. Barrie

Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

~ Steve Maraboli

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

~ Nicholas Sparks

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

~ Criss Jami

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

~ Brian Tracy

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

~ Laura Hillenbrand

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

~ Michael Cunningham

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

~ Jimmy Carter

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

~ Confucius