Quotes in category: “Life”:

You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather.– Outkast

You've got to accept the fact that life isn't a fairy tale, things aren't always happily ever after. Things like magic wishes, Prince Charmings and true love don't happen in real life. Magic wishes come from money, Prince Charming's a shallow idiot with a bad haircut and overpriced clothes. And true love? Ha, true love is one-sided, Ace. You love her, she loves someone else. She loves you, you love someone else. Never quite works out does it? So you end up with some actor pretending to be your true love. Real considerate of someone to let you know reality was like that before being thrown into it. 'If you wish, it'll happen.' Well, wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up faster. Welcome to reality. Enjoy your stay.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that. Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.

Without suffering there would be no compassion

Wouldn't it be great to stand at the edge and not worry about the fall?

Bad times wake us up to the good times we weren't paying attention to.

The world’s a roller coaster, and I am not strapped in. –Incubus

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience at all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention, Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

There are only a few things that belong to me. Who I am, who I was, and who I want to be.

I'm attracted to obstacles Ii need to overcome.

One day can make your life, one day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five big days that change everything

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.

That perfect moment never comes if you don't seize it.

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or ,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.

If something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Silent company is often more healing than words of advice.

Don't take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

It's just something that happens as you grow up. You realize it's less important to have more friends and it's more important to have real ones.

The only person youll never lose is you.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life's gonna seem a whole lot longer than you'd like. What do ya do? You laugh, you know, I'm not saying I don't cry... but in between... I laugh.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.