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
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
- Katharine Hepburn
Me: Stories of My Life
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.
- Katharine Weber
The Music Lesson
There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- Horace Walpole
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?
- Diane Duane
So You Want to Be a Wizard
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
- Nora Ephron
When Harry Met Sally
It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
-
Charles BukowskiPulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
-
T.S. EliotT. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.
- Edith Sitwell
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
- Katharine Hepburn
Me: Stories of My Life
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.
- Katharine Weber
The Music Lesson
There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- Horace Walpole
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?
- Diane Duane
So You Want to Be a Wizard
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
- Nora Ephron
When Harry Met Sally
It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
-
Charles BukowskiPulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
-
T.S. EliotT. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.
- Edith Sitwell
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
- Katharine Hepburn
Me: Stories of My Life
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.
- Katharine Weber
The Music Lesson
There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- Horace Walpole
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?
- Diane Duane
So You Want to Be a Wizard
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
- Nora Ephron
When Harry Met Sally
It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
-
Charles BukowskiPulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
-
T.S. EliotT. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.
- Edith Sitwell
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
