Quotes in category: “Life”:

The trouble is, humans have a knack for choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell!

Draw a line. Live above it.

She once saw a game show where a man stood in a plexiglass box, and dollar bills swirled around him in a miniature tornado, and thought, Life is like that: you can keep whatever you can catch, but it's all whipping past your head so fast, and how were you supposed to tell which were the big bills and which were the small? How could one train for such an infuriatingly stupid challenge? How could anybody catch all the beauty in the present moment, when, after years of misery, there was suddenly a day when all the wonderfulness of life unexpectedly blew down from all directions at once? And how were you supposed to store joy, for the ugly days when the bleakness returns?

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. 

It is easy to forget how perfectly life works out. When you are down, you believe that things never work in your favor. But if you look back, you see that, in many cases, things happened exactly the way they needed to.

Live with intention. 
Walk to the edge. 
Listen hard. 
Practice wellness. 
Play with abandon. 
Laugh. 
Choose with no regret. 
Continue to learn. 
Appreciate your friends. 
Do what you love. 
Love as is this is all there is. 

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. 

Losers aren't the people who don't win, losers are people who are so afraid of not winning, they don't even try. 

People aren't coloring books . You can't make them just how you want them.

There was in the mountains, and perhaps in the world at large, a theory of compensation that held for everything given something else was immediately taken away . Well, you've got the smarts, even if your cousin did get the looks. Compliments, seductive as flowers, thorny with their opposites: Yes, you may be smart but you sure are ugly; You may look nice but you didn't get a brain. Compensation; balance in the universe.

Tell me my dreams are unrealistic, and I'll tell you yours aren't big enough.

It's better not to want anything, that way if it goes away or doesn't happen.... it just doesn't matter.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. 

Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. 
A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. Indecision limits the Almighty and His ability to perform miracles in your life. He has put the vision in you -- proceed. To wait, to wonder, to doubt, to be indecisive is to disobey God.

Life is the sum of all your choices.

It's difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything's changed. 

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.

Failure is a fantastic teacher.

No ending can be right, because it shouldn't be over at all. The magic is not supposed to go away.

The only people you need in your life are the ones that proved they needed you in theirs.

It made her wonder if you could know a person only at a single moment in time, because a year from now or a day from now, he might be different. It made her wonder if everyone reinvented himself or herself, if that was as natural as other animals shedding their skin.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.