Quotes in category: “Life”:

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

You can shed the past. You can’t shake it, but you can certainly get new skin. You can grow old and become stronger.

Find a balance between head and heart. Push your boundaries, that's what they're there for. Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it. And laugh a lot. Never go a day without laughing at least once. Never judge others. You know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life. Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passions. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers. Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes for people. Choose your battles, but don't choose very many. Keep an open mind; it's the only way new things can get in. And last but not least, not the tiniest bit least. Never regret.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. 

Don't worry about someone who doesn't worry about you

What you put up with you end up with.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 

You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. 

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you. 

Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that’s the way it’s supposed to be. 

Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? 

Most good things happen without a plan: friendships, falling in love, finding a job, and so on. If you want to make your new year count, you’ll need to be intentional — not by setting goals, but by making space in your life for what really matters. 

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, life is on a stroll. 

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. 

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them.

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that. 

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it’s good for us or not.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for. 

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain. Rohinton Mistry

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can’t survive…it’s the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

Every moment you waste in life is a sin. Nothing waits for you. It all just moves on.

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.