Quotes in category: “Life”:

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

The world is rarely the way it's suppose to be. And given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job ourselves.

"Okay. The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air-until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore. "My God, this is terrible," the wave says. 'Look what's going to happen to me!' Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and it says to him, 'Why do you look so sad?' The first wave says, 'You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't it terrible?' The second wave says, 'No, you don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'"

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Change isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

The scariest thing about memories is thinking you're going to forget them.

Drink life as it comes. 

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to. 

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world.  Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading toward success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly though, things weren't so clear. The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I'd come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be. Eyes closed, I saw only the blackness, reminding me ofthis one thing, the most deep of my secrets; eyes open, there was only the world that didn't know it, bright, inescapable, and somehow, still there.

Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Behind every achievement is someone who dared to try. 

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

but find yourself moving on.

It happens as you grow up; you find out who you are, and what you want, and then you find out that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, 

Let's be honest. Sometimes there is nothing harder in life than being happy for somebody else. 

I am grateful that somehow we are made, in the most trying of times, to just block out everything and KEEP GOING, even when you have no idea what to do or how it will all work out. There is such a fine, thin edge between life and death, and I'm also grateful that we're able to forget about that, for the most part, in our day to day lives.

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

It's all about hiding the crazy and acting like the most confident girl in the room.

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.  This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. 

She is my friend. She's my family. My insides. She will be fine because she has to be fine. That's how important she is to me.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.