Quotes in category: “Life”:

We don't see things how they are, we see things how we are. 

Everything I'm not made me everything I am.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. 

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are not generally satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. 

Think of a car driving through the night. The headlights only go a hundred or two hundred feet forward, and you can make it all the way from California to New York driving through the dark, because all you have to see is the next two hundred feet. And that's how life tends to unfold before us. If we just trust that the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, and the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, your life will keep unfolding. And it will eventually get you to the destination of whatever it is you truly want, because you want it.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Well, most learn to walk life's road by themselves. But a sad few of us simply stop trying.

"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately." 

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. 

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist -- someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

Myrtle: you've got to stand on your own two feet. 
Helen: I don't think i'm strong enough. 
Myrtle: of course you are, you've got the strength God gave all women to survive. You just have to tap into it. 

In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. 

It made me realize that even when everyone is doing the same thing, we all do it differently. Some faster, some slower. Some with ease, some with great difficulty. But the thing is, you can't compare yourself to how anyone else is doing. What matters is your race, not how everyone else is running it

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. 

She was both wise and stupid in the way that when life got hard she didn't work through her problems; she just danced in her underwear alone in her room until they went away.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there. 

These things happen. What other people say doesn't change the way you are. Remember what we always say? It's just part of the journey. Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.