Quotes in category: “Life”:

Let us remember that it takes both the white keys and the black keys on the piano to play the Star Spangled Banner.

All I do is act on my passions and they call it sin. All I do is tell the truth and they call me a hypocrite. All feel is pain and sorrow and they call it love. All I do is pour my heart out to empty pages and they call it poetry.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.

Even if I get past all my problems, I'm just going to go out and get new ones. I like being a mess; it's who I am.

If I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that are people starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they are upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't change the fact that you have what you have.

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once the hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to chose where we come from, we can still chose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

If you don't like my words, don't listen.; If you don't like my appearance, don't look. If you don't like my actions, turn your head; It's as simple as that.

You can tell a lot about a person’s character by the things they laugh at.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Do you always think this much, Charlie?
Is that bad? I just wanted someone to tell me the truth.
Not necessarily. It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

If your roads always seem downhill, you're probably holding the map upside down.

And then, there were the moments that made you really, really nervous.

We could all learn a lesson from crayons,
Some are sharp, some are beautiful, some
have weird names and all are different colors,
but they all have to learn to live in the same box.

Your character is based on what you stand for, your reputation on what you fall for.

Risk more than others think is safe. care more than others think is wise. dream more than others think is practical. expect more than others think is possible.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death.

Don't be afraid of the dark... because it's in the dark when you can see the stars.

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves and Those who are afraid that you will succeed.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

It's like lighting candles in the rain- sometimes life can be a pain, but don't give up without a fight.

You can run from the disappointments you're trying to hide, but it's only when you embrace your past that you truly move forward.

Life's unpredictable but in the end its right. I hope you had the time of your life.