Life Quotes

Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing.

~ Leo Babauta

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

~ Tom Hiddleston

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way, you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth. If it hasn't happened to you yet, consider yourself lucky. When it does, when one day you look around and nothing is recognizable, when you find yourself alone in a dark wood having lost the way, you may find it easier to blame it on someone else -- an errant lover, a missing father, a bad childhood -- or it may be easier to blame the map you were given -- folded too many times, out-of-date, tiny print -- but mostly, if you are honest, you will only be able to blame yourself.One day I'll tell my daughter a story about a dark time, the dark days before she was born, and how her coming was a ray of light. We got lost for a while, the story will begin, but then we found our way.

~ Nick Flynn

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

~ Carrie Jones

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

~ Joseph Heller

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

~ Lana Del Rey

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. I wonder what will someday bring back Dex and our few months together. Maybe the sound of Dido's voice. Maybe the scent of the Aveda shampoo I've been using all summer.

~ Emily Giffin

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.

~ Robert Brault

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

There's no benchmark for how life's supposed to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.

~ Isaac Marion

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

~ Helen Keller

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

~ Tom Robbins

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still;So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

~ Robert W. Service

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

~ Ray Bradbury

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

~ Suzanne Collins

There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say I will be ready when I am perfect because then you will never be ready, rather one must say I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.

~ C. Joybell C.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

~ Mitch Albom

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

~ Anita Shreve

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

~ Patrick Ness

I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.

~ Sabrina Ward Harrison

When all else fails, there's always delusion.

~ Conan O'brien

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

~ Martin Amis

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

~ Epictetus

If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.

~ Brom

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

~ Lin Yutang

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

~ Franz Kafka

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

~ Cassandra Clare

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

~ Red Haircrow

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

~ Lana Del Rey

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.

~ J.d. Stroube

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

~ Woody Allen

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

~ Alan Bennett

The best stories don't come from good vs. bad but good vs. good.

~ Leo Tolstoy

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

~ Kate Atkinson

People are the most difficult thing in the world to change

~ Gena Showalter

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

~ Brian Tracy

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

~ Marvin Gaye

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

~ Alexandre Dumas