QUOTES ABOUT LIFE
Life is a journey filled with moments of joy, struggle, growth, and reflection. The quotes that follow capture different perspectives on what it means to live, love, and learn. Together, they offer insight, inspiration, and reminders that life’s lessons often come from our shared experiences. ◀ Back
Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)
There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.
- Isaac Marion
Warm Bodies
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
-
C.S. LewisThe Collected Works of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, God in the Dock
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.
- Kate Atkinson
Case Histories
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
- Lloyd Alexander
Time Cat
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
People are the most difficult thing in the world to change
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.
- Tess Gerritsen
Keeping The Dead
The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.
- Corey Taylor
Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
If you walked away from a
toxic, negative, abusive,
one-sided, dead-end
low vibrational
relationship or friendship
— you won.
- Lalah Delia
The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
- Beyoncé Knowles
Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what's comfortable and easy. I'll care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really reach for anything. And then I worry that even if I do, I won't succeed.
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
- Mario Puzo
I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.
There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who do not. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.
- José N. Harris
Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
- Rousseau Jean-Jacques
Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)
There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.
- Isaac Marion
Warm Bodies
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
-
C.S. LewisThe Collected Works of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, God in the Dock
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.
- Kate Atkinson
Case Histories
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
- Lloyd Alexander
Time Cat
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
People are the most difficult thing in the world to change
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.
- Tess Gerritsen
Keeping The Dead
The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.
- Corey Taylor
Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
If you walked away from a
toxic, negative, abusive,
one-sided, dead-end
low vibrational
relationship or friendship
— you won.
- Lalah Delia
The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
- Beyoncé Knowles
Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what's comfortable and easy. I'll care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really reach for anything. And then I worry that even if I do, I won't succeed.
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
- Mario Puzo
I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.
There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who do not. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.
- José N. Harris
Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
- Rousseau Jean-Jacques
Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)
There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.
- Isaac Marion
Warm Bodies
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
-
C.S. LewisThe Collected Works of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, God in the Dock
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.
- Kate Atkinson
Case Histories
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
- Lloyd Alexander
Time Cat
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
People are the most difficult thing in the world to change
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.
- Tess Gerritsen
Keeping The Dead
The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.
- Corey Taylor
Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
If you walked away from a
toxic, negative, abusive,
one-sided, dead-end
low vibrational
relationship or friendship
— you won.
- Lalah Delia
The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
- Beyoncé Knowles
Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what's comfortable and easy. I'll care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really reach for anything. And then I worry that even if I do, I won't succeed.
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
- Mario Puzo
I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.
There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who do not. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.
- José N. Harris
Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
- Rousseau Jean-Jacques
