Quotes in category: “Life”:

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Tragedy was part of our daily routine. But through it all, I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.

Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I'm always missing someone or someplace or something, I'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing.

This world is a comedy to those that think- a tragedy to those that feel.

Most people don't know who they are, that's why they lie. they're afraid someone else will figure it out before they do.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest, that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

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, its when you know your licked before you begin but you begin anyway, and you see it through no matter what, you rarely win, but sometimes you do.

He who angers you conquers you.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call people weird that are weird.

It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

When it comes down to it, there are only three questions to ask yourself: when, where and how. The who and why are beyond your control.

People are crazy and times are strange... I'm locked in tight, I'm outta range. I used-to care, but things have changed..

You dont have to be good all the time, just when it counts.

Leave, but don't leave me. Look around, choose your own ground; for long you live and high you fly and smiles you give and tears you cry, and all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

It's easy sometimes when you just coast along, but like it or not something always seems to go wrong, sometimes people build you up just so they can knock you down, sometimes they will have you there 'cause they need someone around.

Surround yourself with people you love being yourself with.

Life changes. You get it all lined up just the way you like it and then something beyond your control comes along and bumps you off center. How nice it would be if you could get everything just the way you want it and say, 'Okay, now, stay.' But nothing stays the same. You grow up, make friends, lose friends, go to college, lose track of people, meet new ones, and sometimes you ask yourself why. But all I can tell you is the every single experience you go through like this changed you in some way. Every new person who comes into your life changes you. Every moral dilemma or emotional experience you come up against changes you. It's your job you decide how. That's how character is developed.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

Life can take your dreams and turn them upside down, friends will talk about you when you're not around, reality can really cut you down to size, but don't ever loose the light in your eyes. People make you promises they'll never keep, soon you'll know why people say talk is cheap, life resembles one big compromise but don't ever lose the light in your eyes.