Quotes in category: “Life”:

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Maybe the mistake we make is thinking that our parents will change. And maybe, they did a better job then we give them credit for. And maybe there, amid all the crap they dumped on us, are some things worth keeping. Like passion for something you never knew you had. Or the ability to constantly surround yourself with people who love you.

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

There is no difference in a quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backward, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only one she had. Furthermore, she isn;t sad to be a baby. As the wisest here know, it isn't a sad thing getting older. On earth, the attempt to stay young, in the face of maturity, is futile. And it isn't sad thing growing younger either. There was a time Liz was afraid that she would forget things, but by the time she truly began to forget, she forgot to be afraid to forget. Life is kind, the baby thinks.

Your problems will seem inconsequential and trivial 
When you realize one thing. 
We're just a speck of dirt on this golf ball 
Called earth, 
So get stupid and sing…

You can't always sit in your corner of the forest and wait for people to come to you... you have to go to them sometimes. 

Sometimes we don't know our own strength. It can be hard to tell just how much weight you can safely bear, or how much will crush you. I'd like to think you can shoulder as big a burden as you believe you can, that it's all a matter of will. Certainly a comforting thought...Other times it's hard to remember you had any strength at all. Then you can only hope to have someone to remind you you were once fierce and able. 

Did you feel it change? 
I mean how many moments in life can you point to & say 
'that's when it all changed'?" 

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't 

House: Are you going to base your whole life on who you're stuck in a room with? 
Eve: I'm gonna base this moment on who I am stuck in a room with! It's what life is, it's a series of rooms, and who we get stuck in those rooms with, adds up to what our lives are.

The best thing about dreams is that one fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment, you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. 

It's the magic of risking everything, for a dream nobody sees but you.

It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you? 

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

There are many reasons why novelists write - but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world.

We all need something we consider worth getting up in the morning for. Whether it's real or not; healthy or destructive; tangible or false is irrelevant... when you've got nothing to hang onto, deception can seem pretty inviting.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

There's nothing you can do about the past.  
But, you can do a great deal about your future.  
You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday.  
You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes --  
in a fairly short time.  
You can make changes you can't even conceive of now,  
if you give yourself a chance.

Sometimes pain becomes such a huge part of your life that you expect it to always be there. Because you can't remember a time in your life when it wasn't but then one day you feel something else. something that feels wrong, only because its so unfamiliar. then in that moment you realize you're happy. 

Time changes everything. That's what people say. It's not true. Doing things changes things. Not doing things leaves them exactly as they were.

Life becomes bearable only when one has come to terms with who one is, both in one's own eyes and in the eyes of the world. We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our pot-belly. No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best as we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, or our self-regard.

Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. But even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

You just have to focus on things that never change. Like the stars. Those are always the same stars, man. In a hundred years no ones going to have a clue who we were, but they'll know those same stars.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?