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You will be fine,' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ceiling and a cell.
— V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.
— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.
— Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn
Life’s too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don’t care.
— Unknown
That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.
— Robyn Schneider, Extraordinary Means
I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
— Philippa Gregory
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...
— Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems
There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
— Jim Butcher, Death Masks
She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason
I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.
— Hugo Claus
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.
— Marcel Duchamp
There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.
— Nick Hornby, About a Boy
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.
— Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.
— Amanda Hocking, My Blood Approves
Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.
— Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones
I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.
— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
The world is merciless, and it's also very beautiful.
— Hajime Isayama
Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.
— Roy T. Bennett
Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.
— Swedish Proverb
The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.
— Shannon L. Alder
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
— E.M. Forster
How would your life be different if…You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.
— Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair.Even when all doors remain closed, God wil open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that has been denied.
— Elif Shafak
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.
— Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
— Søren Kierkegaard
Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief
— its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.
She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.
— Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.
— Sylvia Plath
The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates
— Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Life is but a dream for the dead.
— Gerard Way
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
— Ernesto Che Guevara
I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Breathing Room
Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
— Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'" (2009)]
— Dylan Moran
Now I've gone for too longLiving like I'm not aliveSo I'm going to start over tonightBeginning with you and I
— Hayley Williams
This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder
— Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it.
— Roy T. Bennett
We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.
— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.
— Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming
— David Bowie
Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.
— Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed
it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.
— Rupi Kaur
Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?""I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!
— Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
— Aaron Sorkin
You know why love stories have happy endings?” I shake my head.“Because they end too early,” she continues. “They always end right at the kiss. You never have to see all the bullshit that comes later. You know, Life.
— Hank Moody, God Hates Us All
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
— Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.
— Conan O'Brien
Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.
— Mary Hoffman, City of Flowers
Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.
— Roy T. Bennett
We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.
— R.A. Salvatore
Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?
— Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! Life flies
— One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.
— Quentin R. Bufogle
I have stitched life into me like a rare organ
— Sylvia Plath
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
— C.S. Lewis, The Collected Works of C.S. Lewis
Letting him goThere is a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender sacrifice. Like the pained silence felt in the lost song of a mermaid
—  or the bent and broken feet of a dancing ballerina. It is in every considered step I am taking in the opposite direction of you.
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.
— Anonymous, Bhagavad Gita: El Canto del Senor
How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.
— Gena Showalter, Oh My Goth
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.
— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken
The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.
— Robin S. Sharma
Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.
— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
After a long, labored sigh, I said, “She was really happy when I got there. I’m pretty sure she was suicidal when I left.”“You do have that effect on people.
— Darynda Jones, Third Grave Dead Ahead
The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.
— Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You
Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making
— Reba McEntire
The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
— Jeff Foxworthy
That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
— Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.
— Hayao Miyazaki, Starting Point: 1979-1996
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.
— Mary Daly
Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.
— Steve Maraboli
One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
— Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty
What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?
— James Dashner, The Death Cure
We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.
— Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl
You didn't just cheat on me
—  you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart
There's difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.
— Robyn Schneider, Extraordinary Means
I had a dream about you last night... you were a giant slinky and I watched you fall down the stairs.
— Amy Sommers, I Had a Dream About You
Those who don't jump will never fly.
— Leena Ahmad Almashat, Harmony Letters
I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but you were too heavy to carry, so I won you over with my personality instead
— Michael  Summers, I Had a Dream About You
Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
What am I dying for?
— Stephenie Meyer, The Host
Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
— D.H. Lawrence
In a well-ordered universe...
— Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone
If you own this story you get to write the ending.
— Brené Brown
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
— Gary L. Francione
We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.
— John Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.
— Deepak Chopra
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered, great reconciliation scenes; but for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Iliad and The Odyssey," "Crime and Punishment," the Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" — are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being?
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!
— Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Hidden
It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.
— Amy Poehler
But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way. In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognize such moments in retrospect. Naturally, when one looks back to such instances today, they may indeed take the appearance of being crucial, precious moments in one's life; but of course, at the time, this was not the impression one had. Rather, it was as though one had available a never-ending number of days, months, years in which to sort out the vagaries of one's relationship with Miss Kenton; an infinite number of further opportunities in which to remedy the effect of this or that misunderstanding. There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.
— Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
— Antonio Machado
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
— Ming-Dao Deng
Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
— Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it.
— Alysha Speer, Sharden
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.
— Andre Agassi, Open
Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn’t make you a weak person. It’s hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it’s a maybe. A ‘maybe someday things won’t always be this shit.’ And that ‘maybe’ immediately makes the shittiness better.
— Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.
— Oscar Wilde
You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.
— Amit Ray
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break
— Billy Joel
Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
— Joe L. Wheeler
Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.
— P.C. Cast
there isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails.
— Raymond Carver, Ultramarine: Poems
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.
— Roy T. Bennett
Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.
— Ellen DeGeneres
Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.
— Miguel de Unamuno
You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
— Leo Buscaglia
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
— Mary Harris Jones
When mice run, cats give chase.
— Rachel Vincent, Stray
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
— William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will behave like one, always remaining one county or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't. You have to admit that you can't catch it. That you're not supposed to catch it. At some point, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.
— Iain Thomas
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
— Carl Sagan
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.
— Slavoj Žižek
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
— Terence McKenna
Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.
— Jean M. Auel
Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future
—  they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.
You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.
— J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.
— Vernon Howard
To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.
— Richie Norton, Résumés Are Dead and What to Do About It
The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.
— C. JoyBell C.
Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
BRODIE:Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.
— Kevin Smith
You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?
— Libba Bray, Going Bovine
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
— Beverly Sills
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
— Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose
—  make a positive difference in someone's life.
As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.
— Avi, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.
— Deepak Chopra
I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. “What if…” “If only…” “I wonder what would have…” You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.
— Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.
— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
— Brenda Ueland
Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.
— Louis C.K.
I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Imagine no limitations
—  decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.
I wanted to cry because I needed you there with me so bad. I knew in that moment that I was in love with you. I was in love with the way you loved me. When you wrapped your arms around me and held me, I knew that no matter what happened with my life, you were my home. You stole the biggest piece of my heart that night.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Learning the truth has become my life's love.
— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does.
— Phil Lester
Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.
— Stephen Colbert, I Am America
When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.
— Joan Marques
Unless you have great parents or some inspirational teacher from a movie that pushes you to follow your dreams, you can't expect a kid to be smart enough to realize they can do what they want with their life before they've been pushed through the school system into having an average life.
— Dan Howell
You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.
— Bob Dylan
Until death it is all life
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.
— Bella Pollen, Midnight Cactus
You can’t control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can’t do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else
— Marie Sexton
Yet if I was asked to do this again - in fact, if I was ever asked to repeat any of my experiences - I'd have to say, fuck it, bring them on. I've no regrets.This is what it means to be alive.
— John Barrowman
My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
There are always loose ends in real life.
— Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm
No lake so still but it has its wave.No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.I would change things for you if I could
—  As I can't you must take them as they are.
I didn’t know. I feel sometimes like…there are all these rules. Just to be a person. You know? You’re supposed to carry a shoulder bag, not a backpack. You’re supposed to wear headbands, or you’re not supposed to wear headbands. It’s okay to describe yourself as likeable, but it’s not okay to describe yourself as eloquent. You can sit in the front of the school bus, but you can’t sit in the middle. You’re not supposed to be with a boy, even when he wants you to. I didn’t know that. There are so many rules, and they don’t make any sense, and I just can’t learn them all
— Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life
A heart has problems which mind cannot understand.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.
— Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King
It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.
— Jim Butcher, Death Masks
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.
— Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
What are you thinking?" he asks.I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast."His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?""Because it all led me here to you.
— Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they are little ones. You took this bus instead of that one and ended up meeting your soul mate, that kind of thing. But there was no doubt in my mind that this was one of those life-changing moments.
— Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass
I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
— Beyoncé Knowles
Wake up, Shake up, Make up and Break up; life is all about moving like ant in search of sugar not sand.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
The world is terrible," said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them.
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
True life lies in laughter, love and work.
— Elbert Hubbard
There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those who ride the waves.’” Tears spilled down my cheeks, and my voice cracked. “‘Ride the waves, baby, and live. Live.
— Gena Showalter, Oh My Goth
Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn't a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you worked like hell to get out the other side still intact.
— Samantha Young, On Dublin Street
Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.
— Brian Tracy
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
— Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Nalaman kong habang lumalaki ka, maraming beses kang madadapa. Bumangon ka man ulit o hindi, magpapatuloy ang buhay, iikot ang mundo, at mauubos ang oras.
— Bob Ong
Some people think that a place can save them... Like if they could just be somewhere else, their lives would be totally different. They could finally be the people they always wanted to be. But to me, a place is just a place. If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.
— Hannah Harrington, Saving June
if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.
— Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.
— Portia de Rossi
When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.
— Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.
— Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person? How did we come to be, and what will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules of this game, and how might we best play it?
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me,If only your heart ever, craves for me or my presence…If only you feel that love again someday for me,If only you are affected someday by my absence…Only you can end all my suffering and this unbearable pain,If only you would know what you could never procure…If only you go through the memories of past once again,Since the day you left my heart has bled, no one has its cure…If only you would bring that love, those showers and that rain…If only you would come back and see what damage you create,I’ve been waiting for your return since forever more…If only you would see the woman that you have made,You said we cannot sail through, how were you so sure?If only you can feel the old things that can never fade,You may have moved on, but a piece of my heart is still with you…I know how I’ve come so far alone; I know how I’m able to wade,People say that I’m insane and you won’t ever come back again…Maybe you would have never made your separate way,Maybe you would have stayed with me and proved everyone wrong…If only you would know the pain of dying every day,If only you would feel the burden of smiling and being strong…
— Mehek Bassi, Chained: Can you escape fate?
Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...
— Rai Aren, Secret of the Sands
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
— Eda J. LeShan
If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich.
— Michelle Kwan
It would be perfect if everyone who makes love, is in love, but this is simply an unrealistic expectation. I'd say 75 percent of the population of people who make love, are not in love, this is simply the reality of the human race, and to be idealistic about this is to wait for the stars to aline and Jupiter to change color; for the Heavens to etch your names together in the sky before you make love to someone. But idealism is immaturity, and as a matter of fact, the stars may never aline, Jupiter may never change color, and the Heavens may never ever etch your names together in the sky for you to have the never-ending permission to make endless love to one another. And so the bottom line is, there really is no difference between doing something today, and doing something tomorrow, because today is what you have, and tomorrow may not turn out the way you expect it to. At the end of the day, sex is an animalistic, humanistic, passionate desire.
— C. JoyBell C.
Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them
—  instead they require maturity to outgrow them.
I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.
— Red Haircrow
If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Happiness is not the absence of problems
—  it's the ability to deal with them.
I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
No one escapes from life alive.
— Michael Crichton, Congo
You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.
— Alysha Speer
I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
— Tupac Shakur
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
— Bob Dylan
All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated.
— Tara Kelly, Harmonic Feedback
At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
— Scott Westerfeld, Pretties
I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.
— Richard Paul Evans, The Gift
This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
— Winston S. Churchill
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
— Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll
You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.
— Stephen King
I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry
— Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.
— H.P. Lovecraft
That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.
— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
...people with nothing to declare carry the most.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close