Life
Quotes
Real
Secret of Life
“I
wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so
I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on
hour more of sleep and live.”
―
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“This
is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing
in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
―
Alan Watts
“I
envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
―
Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
“Learning
to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not
strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move
forward with it.”
―
Ray Bradbury
“You've
a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But
mostly, it's not.”
―
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
“Human
life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
―
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“I
can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be
an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and
say there is no God.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“We
could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave
the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”
―
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“We
all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you
are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with
the power to shape your day and your future.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“Life
isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the
rain.”
―
Vivian Greene
“The
aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly,
serenely, divinely aware.”
―
Henry Miller
“Who
says life is fair, where is that written?”
―
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“You
cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
―
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
“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.”
―
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Marry,
and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t
marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you
will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s
foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will
regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will
regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or
don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or
do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of
all philosophy.”
―
Søren Kierkegaard
“It
all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“Keep
your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”
―
Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within: The Power Within
“We
leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even
though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by
going back there.”
―
Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
“The
cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe
to know itself.”
―
Carl Sagan
“Life
is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive
love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing
only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a
cloud...”
―
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
