Life QuotesIt is said that there is no better teacher than life. There are ups and downs that help you take the lesson of a number of such things that you may not have learnt in books or from your elders. Life quotes are also something like this that may teach you many things in just one or two lines. |
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
Where there is love there is life.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.
That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
The best things in life make you sweaty.
He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.
We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
Some people have lives; some people have music.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.
...Life is much simpler if you don’t notice anything....
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
The past has no power over the present moment.
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness.
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Beauty is a whore, I like money better.
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.
That’s how stories happen - with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this - two things: I crave truth. And I lie.
Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.
Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...
Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them
When you make a choice, you change the future.
Applaud my idiocy.
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.
it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be
Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.
No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.
The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'.
I thought I had everything until I found you.
All we know is what we're told.
Life is a book. We fill the pages.
Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.
I look at life as an adventure. Each new chapter brings new opportunities.
Kill your fear and rule the world.