Life Quotes

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

~ Carl Sagan

Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.

~ Jessica Sorensen

YOU FEAR TO DIE?It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...

~ Terry Pratchett

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

~ Lisa See

My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.

~ Dan Howell

Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.

~ Douglas Coupland

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

~ Osamu Dazai

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

~ Immanuel Kant

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

~ Rachel Carson

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

~ Pascal Mercier

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

~ Susan Ertz

You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.-Allison

~ Julie Kagawa

If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right.

~ Evanescence

You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn’t figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren’t so different after all.

~ Dora J. Arod

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

~ Alice Sebold

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

~ Charles De Lint

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

~ Shaun Hick

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

~ George Moore

Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.

~ Steve Maraboli

There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.

~ Gena Showalter

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

~ Samuel Beckett

One of the things I love about books is being able to define and condense certain portions of a character's life into chapters. It's intriguing, because you can't do this with real life. You can't just end a chapter, then skip the things you don't want to live through, only to open it up to a chapter that better suits your mood. Life can't be divided into chapters... only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath.I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

~ Colleen Hoover

There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

~ Mitch Albom

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going to realizeyour potential.

~ Joseph Campbell

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?

~ Andrew Clements

Life isn’t fair. I said. It’s taken me a while to get that. It’s always going to disappoint you in some way or another. You’ll make plans, and it’ll push you in another direction. You will love people, and they’ll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You’ll try for something and won’t get it. You don’t have to find meaning in it; you don’t have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That’s your job.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Exactly! said Deep Thought. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

~ Douglas Adams

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

~ Brian Tracy

It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.

~ Stephen Chbosky

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

~ Aravind Adiga

Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.

~ Mandy Hale

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

~ Fernando Pessoa

To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it.

~ C. Joybell C.

I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.

~ Hilary Duff

If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

~ Gerard Way