This Life Quotes

Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness.

‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.

When you are setting yourself up for success, above all put on love, because love never fails and with one-size-fits-all solution to every situation you will ever encounter.

One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

Katniss Everdeen, you have caused a spark, wich left unattended, may cause a spark that could cause a whole rebelion

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

And if it (life) were easier, would i have given my heart so fully to God? Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers

I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrifice. For us, it is a gift.

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life.

Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

I don't know anything anymore

I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.

They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one’s body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

A place without meaning is no place to be.

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests