Quotes in category: “Life”:

We're all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

Memories are what we hold on to when everything seems to be changing.

And she knew nothing about life but she knew everything about living.

You can always tell when two people are best friends because they're always having way more fun than it makes sense for them to be having.

I was alone, angry and weird... until I met a group of people that didn't mind that I was alone angry and weird. They even loved me for it. So, I can't replace them and I can't imagine my life without them

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes oh so quick and it seems like nothing. But when you’re looking back … well, it amounts to everything.

So just live, have wonderful times and make mistakes but never second guess where you've been, where you are, and most of all where you're going.

At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

When reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.

For gorgeous eyes, seek out out the good in people. For a beautiful smile, speak words of kindness. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you'll never walk alone.

Point of the story, I believe in payback. Letting people screw you over is just lazy and uncreative.

And there she goes again, she doesn’t need a boyfriend, She’s gonna have fun and never let it go too far, but she’ll party like a rock star.

When one lives without fear one cannot be broken.

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.

It’s not our abilities that show who we truly are… It’s our choices.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us. And total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

Every war is different, every war is the same.

Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.

Give me regret as long as Ican keep the good memories too. we all have regrets, but some of us still have time to erase them.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.

The difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole life, if you survive them.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you dont throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice.