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Oh, why fill the heart with yesterday and tomorrow when this moment is all the heart needs? Let the heart be present, let the mind be here, let the eyes see, let the ears hear, let the soul witness, let the words flow ... down this gentle river, you know the way. Why must the eyes know exactly where and why must the mind know exactly how and why must the heart know exactly what and why must the soul know exactly when? It doesn't matter. In the same way that the headlights do not need to show from here all the way to your home before you get there, the headlights just need to show the next few feet. And if the car continues to move, with the headlights showing just the next few feet, you can make it home from anywhere.So in the same way, let the heart, let the eyes, let the mind, let the ears, let the soul, let the touch of this moment feel what is here ... without focusing on what will be there. Allow the essence of this, and this, and this, and this to enrich your life. Be with this now. Witness the tree as you pass by and watch the birds fly to it, drawn to it in the same way that bugs are drawn to lights. Let your heart be drawn to this moment, let your soul be guided by what is here, now.
— Israel S. Dudley
You never know until you give something your best and keep working at it. Follow your dreams no matter what
— Santonu Kumar Dhar, Life of Love
At the end of the night they all seemed so happy. Maybe it was just because they hadn't seen each other in a while, but as they all gathered around hugging, kissing, and well-wishing each other, I found myself feeling for the first time in my life like maybe I'd missed out on something.
— Dito Montiel, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Caught between life and death, I clung to life.
— Diogo Mainardi, The Fall: A Father's Memoir in 424 Steps
Badmind is such a treacherous emotion because the very thing someone badmind's you for, is the same thing he/she wants for themselves.
— Crystal Evans, Mama Brown's Family
Life even at its tiniest molecule is impermanent, transient, unsure and fickle. We try to make it worthwhile not by adding value to it but by improving our social perception, seeking validation in our interactional circles. Life cannot be valued for in the end, rich or poor, smart or dumb, popular or hermit, we are nothing but dust, vapor, blurry memories that eventually are soon forgotten.
— Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
For once in life i want no one to judge me ,not my parents not my friends no one..For once in life i want to do what i want and live everyday like no tomorrow will come .For once in life i want to know the purpose we are here . I know its not money, no religion ,no rich and poor
— kanav sharma
Will never be happy if you continue to disturb the happiness of others
— Novia Ratnasari
Life without faith, is like an empty beautiful chocolate box!
— "Beta" Metani' Marashi
We don't live for sixty, eighty, or even a hundred years. We live for the few precious moments that happen in those sixty, eighty, or a hundred years. If not, then we're just taking up space and wasting time until we die.
— Christina Daley, Radiant
It's not about the speed of the river, but flow of the current.
— Lyle Rubins
Every person will become three time child in their life.One when they are child, Second when they become parents and third when they become grandparents.It's never be gone.
— Savan Solanki
Life is like a Sunset and Sunrise, when sun goes down it will raise back again next day, life is also same way, sometimes we have to face good as well as bad situation which will help us to learn new things which we never excepted that will happen.
— Madhu
After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.
— Jennifer Smith
I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me to observe them. One seldom has the chance to be a clandestine witness of several talks between the same people. But scenes are repeated in life, just as they are in the theatre.
— Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.
— D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
Since I will never know what the future holds, I choose to live my life expecting great things
— Meena Sarine
I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to lose control completely? To throw off all the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves?
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no one for granted.
— Nael Gharzeddine
Perception believed is reality achieved
— Andy August
We only live a hundred yearsLet's Make it the best time of our life
— Filip Hellings
Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.
— Paul Harding, Tinkers
Everyone is weird. Some people just try to act normal.
— Stephanie Tom
Sometimes life will give you ups and downs, but it's up to you to take them as they come.
— Stephanie Tom
The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage.
— jahangir khosravi shakib
The hard truth is, the life thing moments happen. They are the details, the surprises, the every now and again “dang it” moments that are necessary for you to be able to appreciate good times and accomplish greater things.
— jaha Knight, 39 Day Lifescape-Become a Better You
Don’t be depressed if you feel like a victim of abuse. It is because the abuser knows that your action can get you out of that situation and without depending on anything, live a life within your expectation and beyond.
— Denny A
Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy 2 c u happy...
— Paulo Coelho
You should have no fear from dying because it's there no matter what.
— Abdeletif
Life sucks, then you die.
— Mrs. Drussel
With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.
— Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha
Choice, what people really want, is the most important thing. Choosing the life you want, making your own choices-that is what defines you as human.
— Megan Frampton, Hero of My Heart
He could feel himself gliding down like the sail of a weightless craft, forever plunging into the great beyond below where mermaids sing and summon their lovers home, further down into the depths of some complacent serenity, further down where thoughts float away and never return and the lightness is so grand that there is no other worldly place imaginable, for there is no world left to beconsidered. There is only the soul, free from the prison of the body, and it is released to travelanother millennium through time, carrying with it the progress and industry gathered from themind previously occupied.
— Matthew Chase Stroud, Paths of Young Men
How do you know who are? You have been told how to think, what to study and what's right and wrong your entire life. Well it's not your life until you start being you. Think, work it out for yourself.
— Rob Al'dred
Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather many wounds; but cherish your scars for they are the proud emblems of a truly phenomenal life. The fearful, cautious, cynical and self-repressed do not live at all. And that is simply no way to be in this world.
— Anthon St. Maarten
I don’t want to live—  I want to love first, and live…incidentally.
— Zelda Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Tomorrow has not invited you yet, so LIVE for today! Tomorrow is near, yet so far away. Choose this day to smile, laugh, love unconditionally, and be happy within.
— Stephanie Lahart
I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.
— Zadie Smith
She tried to explain to them it wasn't the place that made people uncultured but their attitudes.
— Vivian Arend, Rocky Mountain Heat
INTEGRITY...Choosing your thoughts, words and actions based on what’s right rather than what’s in it for you.
— Tanya Masse
You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default.
— J.K. Rowling
I'm trying to figure out precisely which character flaw might be responsible for my latest life failure.
— Koren Zailckas, Fury: A Memoir
Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.
— M.R. Weston
ការរស់នៅក្នុងភាពអាត្មានិយមគឺជាការរស់នៅបញ្ច្រាសនឹងច្បាប់ធម្មជាតិ។It is against law of nature to live a selfish life
— Khem Veasna ខឹម វាសនា
When I think about John William now, I think about someone who followed through, and then I'm glad not to have followed through, to still be breathing, to still be here with people, to still be walking in the mountains, and to still be uncertain--even with all this cash on hand--in a way I seem to have no choice about. I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.
— David Guterson, The Other
Find someone who will change your life, not just your relationship status.
— Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
Why would you waste a second of your life, when that's one less second you get to live?
— Anna Jean Ouellette
People's character will be revealed in difficult situations, whether they are a loser or a winner.
— Ardianto sony
Enjoy memories of the past, cherish every moment of present and focus on your future achievement
— S.G
following a process is being programmed, living is doing it in other way.
— Abdul Mueed
The point of working isn't to make money
—  you work to justify life.
To me life is a journey seeking the basic of life.
— Innasafa
Imagine about anything instead of assume about it.
— Savan Solanki
For this very short time in your life, and possibly never again, you will be given a very unique gift: a supremely rich environment with ample time, space, safety and people to explore whatever interests you intensely, to push yourself, to make mistakes and recover from them, and to live as deeply as you'd like in the hope of finding yourself or, at least, the beginnings of yourself.Such an opportunity may never present itself again. So, embrace it and.... Carpe College!
— Michael  Metzler, Carpe College! Seize Your Whole College Experience
Plan for the rest of my life, I will travel the world and retire in the himalayas.
— Poonam Parihar
It is after days ofSoaking in these downpoursThat the land can drink inThe bounty,That the bejeweled trees canAccept nature’s offering.While the dewy greens areVery pretty, and theRunning streams make the mostGentle trickling soundsThere is no healing until theWater is absorbed.
— Nicole Grace, Bodhisattva: How to Be Free: Teachings to Guide You Home
People who knew themselves, got the right answer.
— Innasafa
If you can persist your originality at every situation without masking your face, undoubtedly you are an achiever!
— Nelson Jack
The only reason why there's a lot people living in contradiction; they aren't in the right time, right situation, and right place.
— Innasafa
Every single day you make a choice, to be happy and enjoy the ride.....or to be sad worrying about your life. the choice is yours.
— Ardianto sony
I open my arms wide and let the wind flow over me. I love the universe and the universe loves me. That’s the one-two punch right there, wanting to love and wanting to be loved. Everything else is pure idiocy—shiny fancy outfits, Geech-green Cadillacs, sixty-dollar haircuts, schlock radio, celebrity-rehab idiots, and most of all, the atomic vampires with their de-soul-inators, and flag-draped coffins. Goodbye to all that, I say. And goodbye to Mr. Asterhole and the Red Death of algebra and to the likes of Geech and Keeeevin. Goodbye to Mom’s rented tan and my sister’s chargecard boobs. Goodbye to Dad for the second and last time. Goodbye to black spells and jagged hangovers, divorces, and Fort Worth nightmares. To high school and Bob Lewis and once-upon-a-time Ricky. Goodbye to the future and the past and, most of all, to Aimee and Cassidy and all the other girls who came and went and came and went. Goodbye. Goodbye. I can’t feel you anymore. The night is almost too beautifully pure for my soul to contain. I walk with my arms spread open under the big fat moon. Heroic “weeds rise up from the cracks in the sidewalk, and the colored lights of the Hawaiian Breeze ignite the broken glass in the gutter. Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now
— Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be." - William James
— Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.
— David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work
— Charles Bukowski, Pulp
Your life is far too valuable to be wasted on the life that everyone else is choosing.
— Joshua Becker, Inside-Out Simplicity
People who say they don't have time, in fact have no plans to do anything.
— Chandan Sharma
Girl, you're free, can't you see that? You've got your child, you've got your family down here who love you, you've got your farm. You don't have to ask for anything. You know how few women in this world get to say that, black or white?
— Natalie Baszile, Queen Sugar
When you choose to light, I weep, when you choose to darken, I weep
— Triss
Motivation is Power, Power is Motivation
— Montice L. Harmon
Live now, enjoy Life now! Love now, for this now is the precious moment that is creating our lives. Each now is unique -- it won’t come back in time. In it we leave a footprint, and within that impression are the actions we leave behind. Each step we take, we leave a mark. The path is created by the steps a person takes while walking it.
— Jacqueline Ripstein, The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness
Knowing and doing are two separate things, and don't always sync up in life.
— Nenia Campbell, Bleeds My Desire
I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
In the School of Life events, situations, and the people you have attracted to be part of your personal experiences are synchronized perfectly in order to teach you the lessons that need to be learned. They show you exactly what is needed to be successful in your Life.
— Jacqueline Ripstein, The Art of Healing Art...the Keys to Power and Awareness: Black & White Printed Edition
I imagine that's what it must have been like to ride the roller coaster back in the before time. One moment teetering at the top, the world laid out before you and the rush of life filling your lungs. . . and then the plummet. The lack of control. That's what I've started to learn about this world. It might give, but it always takes away.
— Carrie Ryan
When I get lemon juice in a cut..it hurts..but then I remember all who would die for that lemon I am quiet and take the pain for what it is... because that is what it is to live.
— Shawna Mae Lewis
The impossible is possible in your mind and in your dreams.
— Sandra Golden, Hidden World: Past, Present and Future
The life bears a likeness to a song, it, though low or high, pours the whole of itself into each musical note. The song will be only wonderful if a singer sings it in the perfect pitch. This resembles to the life, it overwhelms with tasks that you have to finish. Thus, you must come up with proper timetable to bring strength to your health before doing well everything. I consider health as the most important reward of this life. Just put it in priority, don't ruin it due to any reasons
— AnhTri
Moving on is something everybody has to do. Once you do that then everything will become more clear to you and life.
— Chasidy Merlos
I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously, like it was something happening at telescopic distance. Like something I was looking at through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.
— Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE IN THIS WORLDHate - Deal - Challenge - Love - Win
— Haruka Genji
I do not go to the reunions though because it make me feel old
— Dr Jenan Alatrakchi by Aleksandr Orlov A Simples Life
Play life on hard. Easy might be safer but where is the fun in that?
— Neila Rey
Whatever you entertain becomes educational.
— Okisha Jackson
When things are finally falling into the right places, something happens that puts you back to square one.
— Christine Celis, Snippets of Imagery
It is the small trivial things in life that makes a human happy, like opening a pickle jar.
— KanyaACoffman
If life is a bowl of cherries, what's inside of it?
— Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?
It's better seeking the basic in learning something.
— Innasafa
The salvation of man is through love and in love
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Life is short as breathing!Forget Yesterday, Focus today to enjoy tomorrow!"The purpose of life is to live it, not destroy it.
— Ebelsain Villegas
Nothing stays forever, nobody does rather. All the things, people will leave you one fine day and you’ll be a wanderer in solitude again. You’ll moan again silently through the process of decaying. All your richness or poornesswas never really of worth. When you were born, you were dead, respiring to cease. You’re a trader, exchanging everything!
— Nupur Walia
… one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street.
— Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel
What goes around comes around""the word you are looking is (Karma)meaning what bad you have done to someone else. Be careful it will come back in another way at its own time and you wont even realize it.
— RICARDO RANDY RAMNATH
Who knows until we experience it? I think that heaven and reincarnation are both ways of making us feel better about what happens to people's souls after death. I hope at least one of them is true.
— Cat Patrick, Forgotten
Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing whatever happens, after the first blow has fallen, after the first catch of the breath, the first gulp of misery, we turn our eyes with all their old eagerness to a point a little further along the road.
— Elizabeth von Arnim, Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther
Sorry! But I'm not a game played when ever you want to play it!
— Gina Karablieh
Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
— Tanya Masse, Stairway to Awesomeness!: 30 Fundamental Steps to Living a Life of Awesomeness!
Time unlived grows old Like unworn robes in a locked chest.
— Oktay Rifat, Poems of Oktay Rifat
The fear that we are going to fail in life is really the fear that we are not good enough for whatever we have to do. Be yourself and you will be able to do anything you want. Let the soul within you be itself and you will never fail. Don't boast, but understand that letting your light shine invites others to do the same.
— Davis Carlson
The blizzard doesn't last forever
—  it just seems so.
He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw also that by reason of it he had acquired that power of introspection which had given him so much delight. Without it he would never have had his keen appreciation of beauty, his passion for art and literature, and his interest in the varied spectacle of life. […] Then he saw that normal was the rarest thing in the world. Everyone had some defect of body or of mind […] The only reasonable thing was to accept the good of men and be patient with their faults.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
The more you hate, more you think about it, more you increase your own stress.
— Mohit Manke
I know you weren’t born to make people happy, but if you did one day someone else will make you happy too.
— Amna.s
Life with out challenge have no meaning!
— "Beta" Metani' Marashi
It's better to die chasing a dream never caught than to die never having chased the dream.
— Joyce Fields, My Simple Quotes to Live by
I have learned many things in this life:)
— lizthewiz
You aren't perfect. You aren't glass. You're not gold. You're not right. But you are precious. Remember that.
— Nashi
I hate you. I love you. But I am free.
— Nashi
sometimes, you feel that you’re unwanted, in someone’s life when you’re actually the best thing happened in their entire life, it’s just too hard, to recognize if they really want you or if they’re pretending to want you.
— Amna.s
Love Life's Loves
— Felisha Antonette, Burdened
Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself".
— Behnam Rajabpoor
Smiling is powerful. Smiling at your problems make you a powerful person.
— K.R. Loreto
In life you get the choice, it depends on what you choose and how you live with the consequences to whether you win or lose!
— Adam Johnston
If you fear it you believe in it
— Tone Lee
I feel more alive now than I did while on earth. I am coming to terms with the notion that death is truly another word for opportunity.
— H. L. Balcomb
You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.
— Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves
Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic.
— Richie Norton
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
As Sidda joined Vivi in staring out into the darkness of the fields, where hundreds of sunflowers grew, she thought: I will never fully know my mother, any more than I will ever know my father or Connor, or myself. I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?
— Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.
— Bill Mollison, Introduction to Permaculture
In the building of walls to protect ourselves— we have managed to keep ourselves from the best in this life. And so the line is drawn whether to live and to be broken and unbroken or to breathe but not live at all. Perhaps there is no such thing as brokenness, afterall. Perhaps it is all just called "living.
— C. JoyBell C.
Sometimes the MOM who's always there for everyone else, needs someone to be there for HER.
— Tanya Masse
when you unfriend the people you need, soon you will have to befriend the people you don't need
— Ankur singh yadav
A life is like a book of many chapters, some interesting, a few boring,a handful sad,one or two memorable, many joyful and others thoughtful.
— Elzabeth Adeniyi
Now I just act like I don't remember
—  Mary acts like she don't care.
Growing up is the dumbest thing I ever wanted to rush into.
— Tanya Masse
there are no great things in life, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to Meet.
— Rodney Masemola
Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.
— Ace Antonio Hall
Everybody says life is hard. I'm surprised nobody makes effort to not create any lives.
— Orlyze Simons
Don’t wait for anything, just live your life today.
— Vivek Thangaswamy
I'm not sure why the saying goes..."be careful what you wish for"...it should be, "prepare yourself for your wishes". We need to know ahead of time to prepare for what we wish for, so that when our wishes come true, we don't regret the wish or have them turn into nightmares.
— C. Nzingha Smith
There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private.
— Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?
— Jude Morgan, An Accomplished Woman
Life is full of challenges thus that you spend Get used to it
— Anonymous
A life is similar to a book. Some chapters are boring,a few emotional, a handful memorable,others saddening,one or two thoughtful and many full of smiles.
— Mopelola  Adeniyi
Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying?
— Mopelola  Adeniyi, A Rough Diamond
I'm quite certain that if I lost my sense of humor, it would most definitely need to be replaced by a padded cell.
— Tanya Masse
A life is like a book of many chapters and topics. Which Chapter are is your life?
— Mopelola  Adeniyi
If you give your work life, your work will give you life. Vies-versa
— Maria Renteria
Only those who vacillate have the possibility to regret. Those who know what they want, they have it easy; if everything goes wrong, they know they did not have a choice.
— Nina -, Johnny Kiddow
I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?
— Charles Bukowski, Pulp
The voices in my head does not likes attitude of some people. I know how to defend myself, but I do not want to hurt their feelings for ease my pain.
— Sammy Toora Powerlifter
Love is soul work. Love can be met and joined with attraction and infatuation and all of that, but love will not fade when those things do. You can choose to close your heart to love, and run away, and avoid it for as long as you can in every way you can think of but if it was really, truly, the other-worldly, almost supernatural kind of love that we can only hope to be graced with at least once in this life experience, it will not leave you. You can love many people, but at the end of the day, the love you need to choose is the love that, even if you close your heart to, still moves you. The love you still write about. The love you can’t face. The love you’re still not okay with losing, that you’re angry about; the love that uprooted your life and contorted your being. The love you ran away from because it showed you who you are without the guise of worth given from someone else. This is love because these are all signs that you are closing your heart and to be doing so, there has to be something going through you for you to be able to close off. Real love will be the love you realize that remains even after you close your heart to it, because it sustains itself. It drives you forward. It brings up all the unhealed parts of you that you have to reconcile.
— Brianna Wiest
No REGRETS. Just LESSONS learned, BLESSINGS recognized and HUMOR found.
— Tanya Masse
Those who think they know it ALL don't know what they are missing!
— Tanya Masse, Stairway to Awesomeness!: 30 Fundamental Steps to Living a Life of Awesomeness!
The things you should value most in this life are NOT things.
— Tanya Masse
If there ever comes a time that you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.
— Tanya Masse
Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.
— Roger Housden, Ten Poems to Open Your Heart
But reality had other ideas.
— T. Torrest, Remember When 2: The Sequel
Carpe DiemBy Edna StewartShakespeare, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman did it, why can't I?The words of Horace, his laconic phrase. Does it amuse me or frighten me?Does it rub salt in an old wound? Horace, Shakespeare, Robert Frost and Walt Whitman my loves,we've all had a taste of the devils carpe of forbidden food. My belly is full of mourning over life mishaps of should have's, missed pleasure, and why was I ever born?The leaf falls from the trees from which it was born in and cascade down like a feather that tumbles and toil in the wind.One gush! It blows away. It’s trampled, raked, burned and finally turns to ashes which fades away like the leaves of grass.Did Horace get it right? Trust in nothing?The shortness of Life is seventy years, Robert Frost and Whitman bared more, but Shakespeare did not.Butterflies of Curiosities allures me more.Man is mortal, the fruit is ripe. Seize more my darling! Enjoy the day.
— Edna Stewart, The Call of the Christmas Pecan Tree
This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Waiting is often the best part of the story," he explains. "After all, once you know the story, its over.
— Ella Frank, Blind Obsession
It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation
— Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness
Just learn from your mistakes..and for give yourself..and better yourself:)
— Richard Allen Whisenant
Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.
— Joshua Romqn
Love is fantasy....Life is reality
— Richard Allen Whisenant
worryless and live more to see the destiny of your future
— Sir Gusta
It is what it is
— David Dweck
No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow, but even if I wasn’t a rock star, and just a normal civilian, I still wouldn’t plan to die young. Death is so boring.
— Sofea Shah
Life is a stage, that we all have to go through!
— Ari Joseph
Repetition will be repeated
— NightBits
Life is amazing, don't wreck yourself trying to figure it out, cause its just that simple.
— Alysha Millet
You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed.
— Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.
— Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
I am the living dead girl because I am too weak to die. I hate those crying dough women on TV because they are just like me, weak and broken and clinging to the hands that hold us under.
— Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl
I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
— Abraham Lincoln
You might be a big fish in a little pond,Doesn't mean you've won'Coz along may come a bigger one.
— Coldplay, Coldplay: Viva la Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.
— Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
...she could not stick by the golden mean...was always anxious to experiment in extremes...to find out what was enough by indulging herself in too much." (Gordon Lameyer)
— Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
The toughest fucking moments in life are the ones where the whole world is a big, fat unkown, where chance has more power to change your fate than you do. It's then that you're gonna want me, Sali, because me, I'm a sure thing.
— C.M. Stunich, Losing Me, Finding You
Sweetie, you don't need to drive me to the brink of insanity... I'm close enough to walk!
— Tanya Masse, Stairway to Awesomeness!: 30 Fundamental Steps to Living a Life of Awesomeness!
A problem isn't a real problem till you decide to make it a problem... so what's the problem again?
— Runa Magnus
Never stop dreaming or reading.
— A.B. Shepherd
Have Fun, Be Safe, and Always Have FAITH
— Malcolm "CUDA" Clinton
When you dread getting up in the morning to go somewhere, you are going to the wrong place.
— Karen Larson-Reuter
As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on.
— Elizabeth Brundage, Somebody Else's Daughter
The World is Bright & Beautiful
— Atul Tiwari, I Just Went Crazy
The happiest people are the ones who can build a firm foundation of awesomeness out of the stones people have thrown at them.
— Tanya Masse, Stairway to Awesomeness!: 30 Fundamental Steps to Living a Life of Awesomeness!
A loser is one who has "given up on his dreams",so long as you are trying, you haven't lost yet!
— Manmohan Singh
You can’t be criticized for what you don’t try. You can’t lose your balance if you never climb. Give it, Give it all, Give it NOW.
— Milan Jed
Great ambition without contribution is without significance.  The Emperor's Club
— Steve William Laible
Often times, we blame others for our frustrations and failures.In doing so,we disturb our own peace of mind and aggravate our happiness.No one can harm us. No one can keep our good from us.Let us not blame others, but look for and find the best in everyone.This will lead us to success and happiness.....
— Tanu Reshma B Singh
you are the builder of your future, the creator of your destiny. Therefore, do not swerve from the path of truth........
— Tanu Reshma B Singh
#Note: There is a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Your goal is not to live long…it’s to live!
— Milan Jed
Build your life in self-controlpurity, moderation in food and drink, and obedience to the will Divine. and you will have built well !!!!
— Tanu Reshma B Singh
Sometimes is necessary to fall from grace to teach indecent.
— Ahmed Akram Mirza
Things I hate comes with a pain.
— Nadair Desmar
Loneliness is the worst pain that human can go through specially the period time when technology that is design to keep people away from each other and that period is now (21-Century).
— Nadair Desmar
My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.
— Susan Crandall, Whistling Past the Graveyard
If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
If you want to be all like smart and adult about this shit then do the right thing. But if you want to do something fun and take a chance, then screw what anyone else thinks. Rock and roll, man!
— Karina Halle, Darkhouse
They got everything money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gonna be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir.
— Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy
This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.
— Mahbod Seraji, Rooftops of Tehran
Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don’t belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection.
— Carl Henegan
Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.
— Milton H. Erickson
The only thing worse than regretting the things you've done is regretting the things you didn't do.
— Samantha Leahy
If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.
— Randall G. Leighton
Most of us do not choose the life we live; however, our lives are a direct result of the choices we make.
— Arial Burnz, Midnight Hunt
Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game; endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
— Anne Enright, The Gathering
Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame...
— Amit Abraham
Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you.
— Ankur Basu Roy
It is best to live life gulping down one’s anxiety and flying higher than anybody else.
— Kyra Gregory, Secrets Clad in Light
I'm trying like hell to leave a footprint, carbon or otherwise.
— M.A. Bookout
Never be afraid of the dark side of Vegas, the side the neon and glitter never seem to touch..
— Hazim Bangwar
If you say anything, it just gets worse.
— R.L. Mosz
Being normal?1 I have never had this experience.
— Ribecca
Whatever does not change you specially makes you different.
— Nadair Desmar
life is full when you know where you are and where you are going.
— Ijaz
The mind is the chisel, matter is the stone and life is the sculpture. Make sure you use your chisel wisely
— Carsten Ostergaard Pedersen
Live for the moment but do it the smart way so you can experience more nice moments !!
— jojo1980
Everything Can Change in One Moment of Time
— Debbie Ann Egdell
Trust the faith everything will be okay.
— Nadair Desmar
That what you think that you are, that, you are
— Carsten Ostergaard Pedersen
Let your instincts guide you through life, and your eyes see the way through.
— Tania Gardana
When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.
— Shannon Celebi
My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
— Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Whatever role you play, play it to the hilt.
— Lynn Flewelling, Shadows Return
Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.
— Lynn Flewelling, Traitor's Moon
I remember a relative of mine who used to pick on me all the time, constantly ridiculing my every move and making me feel inferior. One day she had a pimple on her face and was devastated. I told her "Why would you let a little thing like that bother you in such a way? It's just a pimple!" And she cried and said "You can say that, because you're perfect and even if you have ten pimples on your face, it wouldn't even matter!" And I never forgot how I felt in that moment, that moment taught me some important things! First, I realized that the whole time she was picking on me, she actually was feeling that I was perfect! And secondly, I realized that when people think you're perfect, they try to make you feel bad about yourself! I was so taken aback in those few minutes— I couldn't even say anything! I just looked at her while all my realizations flooded my mind and I decided that just because you think someone is perfect, doesn't give you the ticket to make them feel bad about themselves.
— C. JoyBell C.
All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?
— A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
My second crush, don't know, who you are,by thinking of you,my day pass.The things, the things, the things changed,forgot the first, second begins.The second crush,my second crush,don't know who you are,but, by thinking of you,my day pass.Who you are, i don't know,but seeing you shed tears.My feelings drop, water stops,in my eyes.The things, the things, the things changed.I fall in love, are you goddess or what.As i came near you, my heart beat rise.Want to stop my legs,but they attracts.Like your tears attract the sand,when they are falling on land.My heart, my heart, my heart beat rise,you came, you came, you are closer to my eyes.I see tears fallen on the ground, my love rotating around you round and round.Now, you are the first,you are the last,that i told you my sweet heart.When i see you first time,it was my last time,to fall in love, my dear valentine.The second crush,my second crush,don't know who you are,but, by thinking of you,my day pass.The things, the things, the things changed.Now, crush end,time spend,love start,now, you are my life part.:-)
— Abhishek Singh Sikarwar
What happens to those who live dangerously by being true to who they are?
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
All sorrows in life stem from the lack of cake. If you had your own cake, you wouldn't bother trying to take away the other person's cake! And, if the cake you had were beautiful enough, you wouldn't bother trying to melt the icing on that other person's cake! And if you always had a very beautiful cake that was always beautiful enough, then you would have a smile on your face all the time and wouldn't even care if other people were enjoying their own cakes! Because you'd be enjoying yours, too! Therefore, I hereby decree that all sorrows can be fixed by many beautiful cakes! Bake a cake!
— C. JoyBell C.
I realized that life doesn't work that way-that just because you have dreams and make plans, it doesn't mean that they will come true.
— Heather London, Fall from Love
I never ask perception about me to anyone but mirror, it never lies.
— Chandan Sharma
In the beginning, there was movement.
— Asanaro, The Secret Art of Seamm Jasani: 58 Movements for Eternal Youth from Ancient Tibet
When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
— William Saroyan, Short Drive, Sweet Chariot
I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration.
— Petra Remes
We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Twas such a useless thing. And so unnecessary. Many had suffered for the actions of a few. Wasn't that always the way of things? The collective suffered for the actions of an inept, ineffectual leader.
— Maya Banks, Highlander Most Wanted
I was trying to help... The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind.
— Veronica Rossi
We live in a culture of violence.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will think that all you need to do is give people the facts and the figures and they will reach the right conclusion. You will think that all you need to do is point out where their interests lie, and they will act politically to maximize them. You will believe in polling and focus groups: you will believe that if you ask people what their interests are, they will be aware of them and will tell you, and will vote on it. You will not have any need to appeal to emotion---indeed, to do so would be wrong! You will not have to speak of values; facts and figures will suffice. You will not have to change people's brains; their reason should be enough. You will not have to frame the facts; they will speak for themselves. You just have to get the facts to them...
— George Lakoff, Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
The lesson is letting go, giving up and giving thanks for what is. Life unfolds in mysterious and beautiful ways; I have very little say in this process.
— Judy Liautaud, Sunlight on My Shadow: A Birth Mother's Journey From Secrecy to Renewal
The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.
— Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too
Life is too short to hold back, so live It as if It's not guaranteed.
— Queen Of Spades
You ain't living unless your living high
— Lazaro Cesar Ruiz Sr.
Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby.
— A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'...
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
The hardest thing is being with other people - it's like they're on a different wavelenght, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what's wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just let them go. It's a whole different language, and you've got to remember that you can only respond in their mother tongue. It's really hard to relate.
— J.R. Ward, Lover at Last
It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
— Rose Wilder Lane
When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.
— Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape
But the summer had been a very happy one, too -- a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen delight in wholesome things; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly, to work more patiently, to play more heartily.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you.
— Frank Ocean
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
— Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
It’s not that I wanted to die . I just wanted to go to sleep for long enough for my life to find some meaning again.
— Bart Baker, What Remains
Each day carries in the blessings of God and you have unlimited access to all it offers.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience