Quotes
on Life - The best Way to predict your Future is to create It
“I
am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had
never been.”
―
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
“When
a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
―
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
“At
some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”
―
John Green, Looking for Alaska
“The
best way to predict your future is to create it.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“If
there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
“The
Laughing Heart
your
life is your life
don’t
let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be
on the watch.
there
are ways out.
there
is a light somewhere.
it
may not be much light but
it
beats the darkness.
be
on the watch.
the
gods will offer you chances.
know
them.
take
them.
you
can’t beat death but
you
can beat death in life, sometimes.
and
the more often you learn to do it,
the
more light there will be.
your
life is your life.
know
it while you have it.
you
are marvelous
the
gods wait to delight
in
you.”
―
Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
“When
things go wrong, don't go with them.”
―
Elvis Presley
“To
be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you
should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will
ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the
moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion
symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”
―
Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
“I'm
the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a
class with her.”
―
Tom Leveen, Party
“I
like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure,
the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is
ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought,
affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a
wrong guess.”
―
Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations
“Life
is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay
true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.”
―
Zayn Malik
“We
are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
―
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“I
want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Life,
with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're
given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
―
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
“We
demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
―
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“The
truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or
cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that
fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take
off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.”
―
Patrick Rothfuss
“Oh,
don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.”
―
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“I
want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning,
the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“Then
I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”
―
Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
