Life Quotes - Page 586

In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now," even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the belief that everything could only get worse: If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so.

Orhan Pamuk

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Sherman Alexie

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?

Suzanne Collins

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Andy Rooney

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Sigmund Freud

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Susanna Kearsley

I've been embarrassing myself since about birth.

Phil Lester

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

John Green

Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. Because Gram's right, there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess. It's like the day Mr. James took us into the woods and cried triumphantly, "That's it! That's it!" to the dizzying cacophony of soloing instruments trying to make music together. That is it.

Jandy Nelson

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Leo Tolstoy

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Douglas Pagels

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.

Carl Sandburg

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

Marie Lu

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.

Hermann Hesse

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

Audrey Niffenegger

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

Fred Rogers

The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.

Leo Babauta

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

William Paul Young

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

J.K. Rowling

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

Gautama Buddha

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

Jeannette Walls

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

John Steinbeck

If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.

Steve Maraboli

Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.

Steve Maraboli

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

Karl Lagerfeld

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Thomas Fuller

Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.

Roy T. Bennett

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

Ransom Riggs

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

Tom Robbins

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Bill Watterson

You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.

Louis C.K.

Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade...

King James Gadsden

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

Patrick Ness

So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder…

Jostein Gaarder

Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.

Steve Maraboli

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!

Karl Marx

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Brian Tracy

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

Anaïs Nin

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

Christopher Rice

The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.

al-Hasan al-Basri

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.

C.J. Redwine

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.

Alice Bag

Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.

A.W. Tozer

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Christopher McCandless

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That’s what makes us humans.

Masashi Kishimoto

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

John von Neumann

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

Jacqueline Carey

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.

Matt Smith

CALVIN:As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

Bill Watterson

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

Franz Kafka

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