Life Quotes - Page 271

People show you who they are, not by what they say, but by what they do.

She would talk to him in the car, ask him something, then turn on the radio and find her question answered by the lyrics of a song; pick up a book and turn to a random page, to find the words that were exactly what she needed to hear. There is no such thing as coincidence, she would think, blowing a kiss of thanks to the heavens.

There is something magical about young love, when you still think that the world is your oyster and you have your whole life ahead of you.

Bad things always happen in three.

You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.

Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away. Mothers are left stranded, madly holding a lump of London clay, some grass, some white tubers, a dandelion, a fat worm passing the world through itself.

Family is everything!” he always said when he went overboard with sentimentality. “If you don’t have family, what do you have?

Do you ever think?What?They were lying together on the sofa that had always been there, the crappy beat-up biscuit-colored sofa that was managing, as best it could, its promotion from threadbare junk to holy artifact.You know.What if I don't know?You fucking do.Okay, yeah. Yes. I, too, wonder if Dad worried so much about every single little goddamned thing . . . That he summoned it.Thanks. I couldn't say it.That some god or goddess heard him, one time too many, getting panicky about whether she'd been carjacked at the mall, or had, like, hair cancer . . .That they delivered the think even he couldn't imagine worrying about.It's not true.I know.But we're both thinking about it. That may have been their betrothal. That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the crags and crevices of a planet that may not be inhabited by anyone but us. We no longer need, or want, a father. Still, they really have to call him. It's been way too long.

Michael Cunningham

If you are going somewhere. Go, only if you're coming back.

The life that brings light in the family often attracts darkness in form of envy and hatred that stands as encumbrances

My sister lived in the moment. She said she would love the summer only when it came and warmed her. But I lived and still live in the future. Where it’s warm when it’s cold. Where dreams are not yet reality. Where the sad people are happy. The only problem with living in the future is that everyone has died, including yourself. So your plans are fiction and your predictions are fantasy. Living in the future is pure fantasy. I think that’s why I love it so dearly.

I guess she was a life line Sewing our family fabric togetherFrom me to dad to herGave me a sense of continuity Especially when my daughter was bornAs she was slipping away

Richard L. Ratliff

Well, it's true for every elder sibling, We have this supremely potent weapon "parents " on our side in such matters. In fact, such are the times when our maturity works wonders in hitching parents to our side over these younger siblings.

Once people knew about the cancer, I wouldn't be able to stop them from talking about Val every time they saw me. And then I would stop being me, because my time was something I could only buy at home.

Melanie Conklin

ilet myselfknowthat my lifedoesn'thave to be overjust becausetheirs are& i wentahead& paintedthe sunback into my sky.I am allowed to live my life.

Amanda Lovelace

Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child.

Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.

You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.

Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.

Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.

Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

Life is like a balancing act and we are always just a step away from a fall.

You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

Home is supposed to be a place of security, the last resort of refuge.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.

Your life is the people who fill it," Mel says. "And nothing's good without them.

Kayla Rae Whitaker

Therefore, you should fall in love as often as you can. Fall in love with a thing, with a soul, with every person in your life. Fall in love with your very existence. Only then will you know you have lived.

There are a world of answers, outside the loop.

Anthony Liccione

It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.

Lukasz Laniecki

We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from us. Not even our parents.

Lukasz Laniecki

There is no better way to crush someone’s self-confidence than to tell this person that her / his choice was wrong, and that she / he should have listened to us (parents). Because, obviously, we know how to make the right choices and she / he does not.

Lukasz Laniecki

Our parents are not the only people on this planet, and we should not base our life choices on what they want (what will bring them a peace of mind, satisfaction, and give them a reason to brag), but we should make those choices keeping in mind that there are upwards of 7,5 billion people in this world, and that we should use our talents and energy trying to improve the lives of as many of them as possible.

Lukasz Laniecki

Who said that parents’ beliefs should be adopted by their children?

Lukasz Laniecki

Spending time with mama is the best time I ever spent other than remembering Mighty Allah.

They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don’t (something which contradicts their beliefs)

Lukasz Laniecki

They (parents) want life to unfold according to what they believe. Most people want that. The last thing they want and need, is somebody (let alone their own child) telling them that their beliefs about life are bullshit / full of holes/ severely flawed.

Lukasz Laniecki

Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best.

Cecelia Ahern Ahern

Miracles only grow where you plant them.

Cecelia Ahern Ahern

You don't have to change yourself to meet the expectations of others. CIOs who not only accept you, but celebrate you for who you are. Give your time and energy to the ones committed to truth, the brave souls working toward a life of authenticity. Let that be your tribe, and you their family. Open yourself to connections formed from a pledge to be real.

And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.

Just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.

Cecelia Ahern Ahern

By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.

Rabih Alameddine

Abba, you may not like it, but what I'm doing is important. If you don't agree, then I'm sorry. I can't do anything about it.

Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy and enjoy life…!

James A. Murphy

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

Wynton Marsalis

Families are wonderful institution," he said. "I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge. You can imagine, if you will, how my family wished to shelter and protect me and do my living for me so that I would never again know fear or pain or abandonment. Eventually I had to step clear of them-or I might have fallen into the temptation of allowing them to do just that.

No, I`m putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

Madeline Claire Franklin

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.

I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd settle for knowing what her voice sounded like." I put a hand on her shoulder. "Trite but true—you don't know what you have until it's gone. People change. The world changes. And sooner or later you lose people you care about. If you don't mind some advice from someone who doesn't know much about families, I can tell you this: Don't take yours for granted. It might feel like all of them will always be there. But they won't.

He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

Sarah Addison Allen

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.

These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.

I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.

Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each day give thanks for the gift of life.You are blessed

Pablo

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

Prayerful life must be desire by every Christian.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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