Quotes in category: “Life”:

The thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The weak can never forgive, forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.

You want to but you can't, and when you do you wish you didn't

Memory is an abstract painting--- it does not present things as they are, but rather as they feel.

I'd look on the bright side. If I could find it.

It's a little childish, a little stupid, but then again so is high school.

It's been said that seeing is believing. But the fact is, we all have our blind spots. Sometimes we recognize them ourselves. Sometimes others recognize them for us. Distance has a way of distorting the things we see. But what appears as an obstacle may in fact be an opportunity. The trick is having enough faith to carry through.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing in nothing.

Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.

You have to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you got, remember what you had, always forgive, but never forget, learn from your mistakes, but never regret, people change, things go wrong, but just remember life goes on.

When words become unclear, I shall focus on photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

All the jagged parts of my life have come together to form a complete and mystical whole.

Friendship is the comfort that comes from knowing that when you feel all alone, you aren't.

When you're young, your whole life is about the pursuit of fun. Then you grow up and learn to be cautious. You could break a bone or a heart. you look before you leap and sometimes you don't leap at all because theres not always someone there to catch you. And, in life there's no safety net. when did it stop being fun and start being scary?

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

Learning to trust means ceasing to fear.

The greatest of teachers won't hesitate to leave you there by yourself chained to fate.

And if I never saw the sunshine then maybe, I wouldn't mind the rain.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

speed and direction of our path through life are pretty good measures of our age. We race headlong through childhood, never looking back. Wanting it to end as quickly as possible. As we get older, we occasionally slow down long enough to savor certain moments. It's a sure sign of growing up. It's only in our twilight years when our pace is slowed and the long race is nearing the end that we spend most of our time looking backwards, and we wonder why we were ever in such a hurry.

Until you're broken, you don't know what you're made of.