This Life Quotes

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

The purpose of life is life.

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

they say life goes on long after the thrill of living

Where there is life, there is hope.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

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.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Life is more fun if you play games.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God

It's a sad and beautiful world.

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.

Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings

Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.

The significance of life is living.

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality.