This Life Quotes

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you.

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?

You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start

If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.

Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life.

You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact.

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.

If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.

Be in love with the moments of your life.

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.