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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
— Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait
Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?" "What's that?""The world didn't come to an end.
— Charles M. Schulz
But what is life if you don't live it?
— James Patterson, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Tristan was silent for a few moments, looking at the leaves before them. "Life isn't about the past and the future. It's about today." He paused. "It's about five minutes from now and two seconds ago. It's moments, you know? Not years. Years aren't what define us.
— Chelsea Fine, Anew
Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.
— Julian Gough, Juno & Juliet
Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’ come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient, low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from feeling, or at least from feeling directly or with our full attention. Admittedly, the whole thing’s pretty confusing, and hard to talk about abstractly…but surely something must lie behind not just Muzak in dull or tedious places any more but now also actual TV in waiting rooms, supermarkets’ checkouts, airport gates, SUVs’ backseats. Walkman, iPods, BlackBerries, cell phones that attach to your head. This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can’t think anyone really believes that today’s so-called ‘information society’ is just about information. Everyone knows it’s about something else, way down.
— David Foster Wallace
Life did not stop, and one had to live.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?
— J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged
Dancers are the athletes of God.
— Albert Einstein
How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole
— C.G. Jung
Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.
— Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
— John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.
— Nora Roberts, Black Rose
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.
— Joseph Campbell
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
— Truman Capote
Like madness is the glory of this life.
— William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle
Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what's comfortable and easy. I'll care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really reach for anything. And then I worry that even if I do, I won't succeed.
— Julia Hoban, Willow
It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.
— Jackson Pearce, Fathomless
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. 
— Frances E. Willard
Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It’s ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.
— Chetan Bhagat
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.
— Morrissey
What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. 
— Tana French, In the Woods
My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can.
— Cary Grant
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.
— Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
— H.L. Mencken
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
— Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.
— Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.
— Lily Tomlin
When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s like asking directions to the edge of the earth; The Earth is a sphere; it doesn’t have an edge; so looking for it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god. No one created our universe,and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization; There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.
— Stephen Hawking
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
— Brian Cox
I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?
— Gena Showalter, Oh My Goth
How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.
— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls
Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.
— Sakyong Mipham
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
— Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
— Mario Puzo
Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever.
— Omar Khayyám, Quatrains - Ballades
Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.
— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.
— Annie Dillard
Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.
— Mark Oliver Everett, Things The Grandchildren Should Know
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
— Og Mandino
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.
— Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
— William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it.How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: the Italian Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages....The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and the tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs—something, anything.... Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.
— Emil M. Cioran
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
— Eddie Cantor
Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
— Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes
There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
— Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.
— Albert Camus, L'Étranger
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
— Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger than Fiction
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Everybody's damaged by something.
— Emma Donoghue, Room
I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, well, you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you?
— Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
— Diane Von Furstenberg
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.
— Lana Del Rey
You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.
— Jean Webster
My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments—we hear a word that sticks in our mind—or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly—we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with us in a Dairy Queen—or we have an episode like the one I had with the M&M cars back at the Husky station. And if we were to collect these small moments in a notebook and save them over a period of months we would see certain trends emerge from our collection—certain voices would emerge that have been trying to speak through us. We would realize that we have been having another life altogether; one we didn’t even know was going on inside us. And maybe this other life is more important than the one we think of as being real—this clunky day-to-day world of furniture and noise and metal. So just maybe it is these small silent moments which are the true story-making events of our lives.
— Douglas Coupland, Life After God
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
— Bill Watterson, It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
— Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.
— Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love
If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.
— Betty White, If You Ask Me
A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment
—  you're not be being true to yourself.
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
— Seneca
Imitation is suicide.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.
— Angelina Jolie
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.
— James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans
—  in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.
— Eric Wright
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.
— Alan W. Watts
Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Bullet
Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!
— C. JoyBell C.
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
— Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
— Stuart Chase
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
— Richard Bach
They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.
— E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?
— Sidney Sheldon, Bloodline
in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.
— Ellen Hopkins, Burned
My life has been one great big joke,A dance that's walked,A song that's spoke,I laugh so hard I almost choke,When I think about myself.
— Maya Angelou
If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"Make them stay."And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?"Ellie shrugged. "I don't know."Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.
— Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.
— James Frey, My Friend Leonard
Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.
— Claudia Gray
It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me.But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.
— Stephen Fry
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
— Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.
— Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
— Leonardo da Vinci
Don't leave it all unsaid,somewhere in the wasteland of your head.
— Morrissey
Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable
—  even the bad ones
A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
Find ecstasy in life
—  the mere sense of living is joy enough.
A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
I had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn't notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.
— Michael  Summers, I Had a Dream About You
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
— George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
— Carl Sagan
One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
— Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
Progress just means bad things happen faster.
— Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.
— Anton Chekhov
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..
— Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.
— D.H. Lawrence
Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
— Henry James, The Ambassadors
Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
— Deepak Chopra, Life After Death: The Burden of Proof
Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?
— Goldie Hawn
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
— Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky.
— Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
— Brian Tracy
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them
— Denis Waitley
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
— Gary Paulsen
Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.
— David Rossi
Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.
— Scott Adams
Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.
— Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
— Samuel Beckett
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.
— John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what.
— Roy T. Bennett
... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.
— Jane Green, Bookends
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
— Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace
Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
— Bono
I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.
— T.D. Jakes, Maximize the Moment: God's Action Plan For Your Life
Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.
— Shannon L. Alder
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself
—  it gives life to others as it transforms.
Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.
— Jeanette Winterson
Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!
— Carroll Bryant
Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.
— Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer
I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.
— Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast
The past can not be cured.
— Elizabeth I
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
— T.S. Eliot
Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again. 
— Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl
Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?
— Brian Tracy, Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.
— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You'll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can't stay kids forever."- Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)
— Masashi Kishimoto
You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
You can play it safe, and I wouldn't blame you for it. You can continue as you've been doing, and you'll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough?
— J.M. Darhower, Sempre
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.
— Viktor E. Frankl, The Doctor and the Soul
People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.
— Anthony Robbins
After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.
— Sarah Dessen
I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.
— John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?So do not worry, saying, ``What shall we eat?'' or ``What shall we drink?'' or ``What shall we wear?'' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.- Matthew 6:25-34
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
No,’ Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
— Andy Warhol
People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?
— Masashi Kishimoto
I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat. 
— Brian Andreas
Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
— Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.
— John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June.
— Carl Sandburg, Honey and Salt
I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring.
— Alysha Speer
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.
— Joan Erickson
Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times.
— Roy T. Bennett
Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.
— Alan Moore, Watchmen
To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.
— Thomas S. Monson, Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson
Do you know what you're saying when you say, "Whatever"? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by "you." And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' " Blaze leaned back. "So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.' (72)
— Nicholas Sparks
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.
— Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
— Og Mandino
You should read something else."Why would he have done that to him?"I don't know," she said.Do you ever feel like Job?"She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes.Sometimes."But you haven't lost your faith?"No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine.Is it because you think you might get better?"No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left.
— Nicholas Sparks
For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey’s bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well—by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion.
— James     Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
You are always a little bit wrong
— Hank Green
Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.
— Evanescence
Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
— Lynsay Sands, A Quick Bite
Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
— Jim Butcher, Death Masks
All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.
— Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone
Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are & smile, it may solve, all problems you have got.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
— Ashley  Smith
The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
— C.G. Jung
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
— Scott Westerfeld, Peeps
There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.
— Gena Showalter, Oh My Goth
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.
— Harper Lee
When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
— Patricia Briggs, When Demons Walk
it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.
— Kathryn Stockett, The Help
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
— Pearl S. Buck
Decide what you want to be....Pay the Price ...And be what you want to be.
— John A. Widtsoe, In a Sunlit Land
No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today.
— Sandy Brewer, Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey
The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.
— Ai Yazawa
You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it
—  it doesn't deserve you anyways.
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
— Václav Havel