Life Quotes - Page 71

Every single person is vulnerable to unexpected defeat in this inmost emotional self. At every moment, behind the most efficient seeming adult exterior, the whole world of the person's childhood is being carefully held like a glass of water bulging above the brim. And in fact, that child is the only real thing in them. It's their humanity, their real individuality, the one that can't understand why it was born and that knows it will have to die, in no matter how crowded a place, quite on its own. That's the carrier of all the living qualities. It's the centre of all the possible magic and revelation.

Ted Hughes

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

Nick Hornby

Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight?—What weight?—The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we're vessels, and we are, then we, you and I, are overfull, and that means she's at the bottom of a deep cold lake. How can she stand the hissing of all that water?—We are not vessels; we are missiles.—We're static and we're empty. We are overfull and leaden.—We are airtight and we are missiles and all-powerful.

Dave Eggers

Life is brief, young maiden, fall in love; before the crimson bloom fades from your lips, before the tides of passion cool within your hips, for those of you who know no tomorrow. (Gondola no Uta)

Kouhei Kadono

Oh God, I'm missing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

Sophie Kinsella

nobody tells us as little girls that we may fall in love and have moments of hating our beloved, or have ridiculous arguments at 2 AM over something that neither person understands.

S.A.R.K.

She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever. Where was it now--the glory and the dream?

L.M. Montgomery

I'm not sure I'll ever know the meaning of life or what comes for us after death, but I know it's more than the hysteria people make it out to be. It's about freeing your soul when no one else can; turning thirty and still feeling like you're seventeen. It's about taking chances on a whim, embracing the rain during the storm, and smiling so damn much that you start to cry. It's never regretting, never forgetting, and always being.It's kissing underwater and touching in the dark. Loving even when you think it's emotionally impossible and surviving someway and somehow. It's about living life with a full heart and an overflowing glass.I live life on the edge. I dream, I care, and I belong.I know there's a here and now.I know that I want it.

Nadège Richards

When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in… I’m glad I didn’t get my wish.

Steve Maraboli

There’s no magic ruler by which we’re all judged and weighed, not in this life. If you wait for someone to tell you it’s time to grow up, you’ll wait forever. Some people, quite happily, do just that. They don’t do anything until they’re forced to by circumstance

Heidi Cullinan

As much as childhood was the greatest thing that most of us have ever experienced, with it characterized by our care free attitude and our thirst and hunger to live life on each given day to the fullest. I love where my life is now, after all life was never intended for us to go backwards but simply for us to reminisce and keep moving forward.

Njabulo P. Vilakazi

The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen...

Maud Hart Lovelace

but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she’s stopped believing the impossible can happen?

Jodi Picoult

I don't really enjoy it, Mom.""And you've always felt this way?""I don't know. I guess I want a break.

Julie Murphy

Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened every day and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breath in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.

Kalyn Roseanne Livernois

I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really.

Crystal Woods

We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.

Matthew Quick

I realize now, I was learning how to walk as well. I haven’t mastered the steps, I fall too. But im on my path, my path... and one day that path... will take me to her.

Makoto Shinkai

This is the first fall that I haven't gone to school. Maybe that's why I feel weird all the time.

Jennifer Close

Have you ever noticed how as an adult, all the bright colors go out of your life? Now that I’m not a kid anymore, things always look gray, like a clothesline draped with laundry that’s been washed too many times and left to stand in the wind. I guess that’s what growing up is… it’s a fading photograph.

Rebecca McNutt

He considered the hard times in his life. All the things he had been afraid of. All those years wasted, he told himself, because I was terrified of being different. That's why all us fifty-four-year-olds end up looking so much alike. All of us are terrified of being different.

Stuart McLean

The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

Richard Linklater

Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.

Jack London

No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago. - Rose Red (Fables: Vol.21, Happily Ever After)

Bill Willingham

It's true we all build imaginary prisons for ourselves. Believe that we are trapped behind the invisible bars of the lives we have somehow carelessly constructed for ourselves, despite our youthful promises to ourselves. We see adults who are stagnant and miserable as we grow up. They graffiti the walls behind them with their mistakes and we swear secret oaths that we will heed those warnings. We’re much too clever, we know all the shortcuts and the back alleys.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Sometimes or most of the time, we need to remind ourselves that we're not a KID anymore.

B.C. Yaras

As life runs on, the road grows strangetWith faces new, and near the endtThe milestones into headstones change,t’Neath every one a friend.

James Russell Lowell

Why is it when people are proud of me that my life sucks?”“Because growing up means making tough choices, and doing the right thing doesn’t necessarily mean doing the thing that feels good.

Katie McGarry

Generally speaking, I resolve to change my life on average maybe thirty to forty times a week, usually at about two a.m, drunk, ore early the next morning, hungover.

David Nicholls

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed that I was due a love story.

Sara Barnard

Maybe in the future when life sees that we are ready for love we will meet up or stumble upon each other and it will ignite the light inside of us that we are craving right now.

Alex Guidroz

He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.

John Corey Whaley

Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears".

Laurell K. Hamilton

It’s kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there’s no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you’re no longer a kid but a “young adult,” and after that you’re a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one.

Lauren Oliver

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

John Green

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

Idries Shah

Sufism is experiential

Idries Shah

WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

Idries Shah

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life.

Idries Shah

All the times are best whenever you are with me.

pavankumar nagaraj

But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are Spirit, you are love, and even though it is hard to believe sometimes, you are free. You're here to love, and be loved, freely. If you find out next week that you are terminally ill - and we're all terminally ill on this bus - what will matter are memories of beauty, that people loved you, and that you loved them.

Anne Lamott

You made me to think of others, by thinking others I may forget you... Be Aware

Nutan Bajracharya

Be yourself and you’ll discover a world of surprises, mysteries and strengths.

Dee Dee Artner

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Authur Rubinstein

We stand the risk of stagnation, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

Sunday Adelaja

If you will conduct a poll with most people in our world today and ask them to tell you what is the ideal life they dream about. Most people will tell you that they are dreaming of having a house on an island, but really they are spending away and whining away their lives.

Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes it is important to sit back and think about your life. Then you realize how awesome you are.

Rohan Kulkarni

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.

Craig Groeschel

During the past one year who has inspired you the most?

Byrappa

Every next level of your life will demand a different version of you.

Unsure of Author

You can’t help who you are, but you can change who you want to be.

Benny Bellamacina

Do you ask enough questions? Or do you settle for what you know?

Byrappa

There will always be someone better looking; better off; smarter; richer; thinner; taller; shorter; have more friends than you; a better car and a better house.You might not have what they have, but when you look in the mirror, that's you!And that's something that they don't have and will never have!

Anthony T.Hincks

I can't fathom my love for you, but I know that it makes me want to drown inside of you.

Anthony T.Hincks

Don't take anything for granted because chances are it won't be here tomorrow or for that matter, neither may you.Live for the moment and celebrate what life has given you and what you can give it in return.

Anthony T.Hincks

Being imperfect, makes you perfect.

Anthony T.Hincks

The biggest problem comes when you start adding to your problems more and more + having your own. This is the time when chaos takes a place in your life.

Deyth Banger

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

Richard Paul Evans

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.

Jonathan Levine

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