Life-and-living Quotes

There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that ou...

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us f...

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdas...

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the t...

All I want now is to look at life.

And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other...

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave ...

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean...

Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in t...

Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

One who has hope lives differently.

No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn ear...

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to ...

To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children,to lea...

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody kno...

Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, ...

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, ...

You're only as sick as your secrets.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ...

Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have...

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of esca...

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been cap...

I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I was...

It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. A...

You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because ...

Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You'...

The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake a...

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.

Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, a...

Time takes it all, whether you want it or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end...

The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we kn...

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forw...

Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a prec...

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - a...

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisp...

These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and...

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and ...

Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of ex...

There was no burger so soggy that he would not eat it. No tequila so mean that he would not drink it...

Now that I've let go of my story, I can let go of my life.

A man is not determined by how much he earns. You can still be the man of the house and earn less th...

So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe...

The voice of protest is the voice of another and an ancient civilization which seems to have bred in...

In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with ...

He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his charac...

It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparsenes...

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.

Psychology is the science of mental life

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes un...

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.

I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most ...

Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still o...

I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep ...

Is it as plainly in our living shown,By which way the wind hath blown?

I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior...

… one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going...

What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given...

I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

What fun it would be," he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!

One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him

That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated gli...

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand sprea...

You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of t...

It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal l...

You are the ocean, let the rivers come to you. You are the flower, let the bees come to you.

When life is foggy, path is unclear and mind is dull, remember your breath. It has the power to give...

Life is beautiful. Suffering is due to unconscious following.

Every challenge provides light. The light of understanding about life and truth.

Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that...

You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity.

Mind is like a net, drawn by the needles of past and future. Mindfulness is the way for not getting ...

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by cou...

Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care and celebrate.

Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air,new lights and new truths to enter.

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

Be the radiator of peace. Go to the center of your inner being. Radiate peace in every direction.

You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beauti...

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to...

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...

In the nineteen years since then, I had learned eleven languages and 713 songs. I had found ways to ...

It's amazing how resilient people are, and how the things that didn't come true become,after a while...