Quotes in category: “Life”:

Trom the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web... we must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

Not all who wander are aimless.

Maybe it's maturity or the wisdom that comes with age, but the witch in Hansel and Gretel—she's very misunderstood. I mean, the woman builds her dream house and these brats come along and start eating it.

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.

Circumstances don't make you what you are – they reveal what you are.

Sometimes on the way to what's supposed to happen, something even better happens.

Music expresses that which cannot be said, and which cannot be suppressed.

Because in a sense, it's the coming back, the return which gives meaning to the going forth. We really don't know where we've been until we've come back to where we were. Only, where we were may not be as it was because of who we've become. Which is, after all, why we left.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Often, the greatest growth takes place under the hardest of circumstances. Look deeply to learn the lessons of the coldest, most painful times, for within them lies your greatest potential for transformation.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

If others are jealous, you're doing something right.

You don't trust something to be true, so you push it to the point when it isn't true.

In the presence of trouble, some people grow wings... others buy crutches.

I believe we write our own stories and each time we think we know the end, we don't. Perhaps luck exists somewhere between the world of planning, of chance and in the peace that comes from knowing that you just can't know it all. Life's funny that way... once you let go of the wheel, you might end up right where you belong.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

That's just the trouble with me,I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

Knowledge is a terrible or a marvelous thing, it just depends on your perspective.

Where words fail, music speaks.

You know Hobbes...some days even wearing my lucky rocket ship underwear doesn't help.

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately as they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Nobody can take away your pain, So don't let anyone take away your happiness.

I love quotes because, it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully, expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.