Life Quotes - Page 592

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Angela Schwindt

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Jeannette Walls

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Haruki Murakami

I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

Haruki Murakami

I don’t chase after anyone, If you wanna walk out of my life, then I’ll hold the fucking door open for you.

Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new.

Dreams are necessary to life.

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Eric Roth

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

Michael Cunningham

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

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.

People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you.

Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

James J. Lachard

Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.

To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.

Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

Cormac McCarthy

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

Shannon L. Alder

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

Nicholas Sparks

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultations.They're quite awareof what they're going through...

Pain or love or danger makes you real again....

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Chuck Palahniuk

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

Jennifer E. Smith

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

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.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

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

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]

Stephen Hawking

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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.

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.

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

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

By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life.

Tina Fey

Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.

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