Quotes in category: “Life”:

It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this actually happens and its kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there is absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away.

It's not supposed to be this way. The artists, and scientists, and poets, none of them fit in at 17. You're supposed to get past it. Adults, they see kids killing kids and they think it's a tragedy because they used to be those kids. The bullies, the beaten, the loners, but you're supposed to get past it. You're supposed to live long enough to take it back.

The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad.

I think this had to happen ; today, tomorrow, someday. I mean, it’s not like we’re kids anymore. Everybody grows up. It’s not like Peter Pan or something.

People who go to college are incredible. We go to classes. We sleep very little. We become attached to close friends. We all have separate lives, families, backgrounds, and pasts. We live totally different from how we used to live. We are frustrated and sometimes want to give up, but we never stop trying. We try to sort out our minds, which are filled with studies, worries, problems, memories, emotions. We hurt -- a lot. We keep going though, because above all else, we never stop learning, growing, changing, and most important, dreaming. Dreams keep us going and they always will. All we can do is be thankful that we have something to hold onto, like dreams and each other.

No matter how bad things are at any one moment, no moment lasts. good or bad, time moves on because it has to. And so do you.

Every path has it's puddle.

I nodded my head and took it all in as if it made sense. And in a sense, I suppose, it did. We live in a crazy world, and if you want to get through it with your body and soul even a little bit intact, you might as well be crazy yourself. It couldn't hurt. And it just might help.

There is a big difference in what we long for, what we settle for, and what we are meant for.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

There's a particular brand of pit that grows in your stomach when you know you're losing control and there's nothing you can do about it. Heavy as granite and moldering...It's the way we're built I suppose. A natural reaction to the unstoppable spin of the earth below. Forever trying to wrest control of life, love, work, and home. And when we can't get control there, we'll fight for it wherever we can. As if we think we could stop the world from spinning just by being mad.

It was crazy to depend on other people, to let them be important to you. All it did was make you stupid and vulnerable and blind to reality

Misery is an old friend. It tricks you sometimes into thinking that it's always going to be there, that you can't be happy, but you can. You can walk away from the pain & being in love is the best way to do it.

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

People change, but they do so reluctantly and with the tinest of increments.

No matter where you run, you're always going to end up running into yourself.

Studies have shown that people convince themselves that they're acting rationally when making major decisions-- where to go to college, what to major in, who to kiss or not kiss--when they're really acting on unconscious impulses. The human brain simply can't handle all the complexities that life offers, so emotions kick in and end up making the call. And when that call blows, people don't understand why.

Life's funny sometimes. It can push pretty hard, like when you fall in love with someone but they forget to love you back, like when
your best friend and your boyfriend leave you alone, like when
you pull the trigger or light the flame, and you can't take it back. Like I said, in sports, they call this stepping up. In life, I call it pushing back .

You say that we're all tied up And wrapped around in useless, states of mind. But at the same time we're still young, we have the time to realize that we were wrong.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Life should be a little nuts, otherwise it's just a bunch of ... Thursdays, strung together.

After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

You know, it's been said that we just don't recognize the significant moments in our lives while they're happening, that we grow complacent with ideas or things or people, and we take them for granted, and it's usually not until that thing is about to be taken away from you, that you realize how wrong you've been, that you realize how much you really need it, how much you love it.