Quotes in category: “Life”:

We crave what we cannot attain and despise what we cannot escape.

You start out life with a clean slate. Then you begin to make your mark. You face decisions, make choices. You keep moving forward. But sooner or later there comes a time where you look back over where you have been... and wonder who you really are.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are, once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

They get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.

You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.

Better by far you should forget and smile, Than that you should remember and be sad.

The soul needs friendship, the heart needs love.

We dont like what we don't understand in fact, it scares us.

Silence is the most powerful cry.

There is something about death that is confronting, the thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Trust without proof is faith.

It's only after you lost everything that you're willing to try anything.

We may lose and we may win, though we will never be here again.

There are days when everything seems wrong, when little things hurt you for no good reason. And then there are days, when the world just sings to you, from the minutes you open your eyes to the minute you shut them again at night.

I quote others only to express myself.

And it was then I realized that I was only a part of the past, so there was nothing I could do, but go. Except I didn't...I couldn't.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness - simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain. By the proper use of experience and thought one can draw much from oneself, by determination and patience once can even restore one's health... so let us live life as it is, and not be ungrateful.

I'm having one of those moments when everything is so perfect and you get kind of sad because you know nothing in your life will be better than this.

You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hate-able. It takes brains to see the difference.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

Above all, be true to yourself. And if you cannot put your heart into it, take yourself out of it.