This Life Quotes

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.

Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

We all give up great expectations along the way.

Imagine others complexly.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

In fact living is dying.

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

It’s when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I’d assassinated, that I unravel inside.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.

I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

There is so little time. We need to make every moment count.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.