The Life Quotes

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

My life is a reading list.

Dreams are necessary to life.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Recognize the remarkable individuals in your life who help you envision a world far beyond yourself.

Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

If you give people a chance, they shine.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

The best path through life is the highway.