Life Quotes
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Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.
Etty Hillesum -
Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
Thomas Harris
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If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.
Terry Brooks -
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
George Eliot -
A man could waste his life worrying, that was all too clear. Sometimes you simply had to choose and shrug, however it came out, knowing that you could not have done more with the bones you were given.
Conn Iggulden -
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.
Caroline Myss -
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
Saul Bellow
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Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
Jeff Bezos -
As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times what saved me.
Nicole Kidman -
Life is a wondrous phenomenon.
Albert Szent-Györgyi -
There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.
Bob Proctor -
I will always know what life can take, but I am ready to see what it can give.
Elizabeth Scott -
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
Richard Feynman
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It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.
Stuart Wilde -
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Michael Jackson -
A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something that's an unattainable, weird thing that they have to aspire to and reach for in a scene.
Nicholas Gonzalez -
There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.
Harvey Fierstein -
You have only one life - don't hold back.
Sofia Richie -
Me can't be prejudice. Me can't me no think of life that way. Because, me figure if you prejudice, that mean you have a hate. If you have a hate inside of you, you can't be righteous.
Bob Marley
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
Terence McKenna -
I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
Benjamin Carson -
The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
Saul Bellow -
Leisure is pain; takes off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
Edward Joseph Young