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51c65e8 As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves. life inspirational Haruki Murakami
0d72c64 Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life. life singing-in-the-rain David Levithan
080871d Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never. inspirational life time Colleen Hoover
ea76a2c Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair. hopelessness inspirational life love Ann Brashares
e2729c1 The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. boredom death inspirational life misery Michel Houellebecq
92b1c7a Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is. life inspirational Henry Miller
87218e3 So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness. feel happiness happy life little pain strong taste F. Scott Fitzgerald
db61df0 Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. judgement life old-age Nicholas Sparks
8164c52 It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too. life S.E. Hinton
927405a All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. humanity life mankind poetry roles stage theatre world William Shakespeare
e5d4aeb Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up. action appreciation depression gratitude inspirational life motivational success Steve Maraboli
5868743 Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets. life regret Joseph Conrad
415ccbb No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams. dream dreams greatness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
1d7182e This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key. answer-to-life good-things gratefulness inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes key-to-life life life-and-living living the-answer C. JoyBell C.
79a4a2b I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary. human-nature humanism humor humor-fear inspiration inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring life life-and-living living loving-life lust lust-for-life lustful lusty passion passion-for-life passion-for-living passionate-living passions C. JoyBell C.
dccb800 Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. educational expectation expectations life personality positive teaching wisdom Brian Tracy
bc32738 That's how stories happen -- with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. life misfortune stories unhappiness Haruki Murakami
1e90629 "People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they immortality life travel Marcel Proust
c6c7df5 So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it. epiphany fiction journey life loss love relationships Margaret George
8ac9a80 Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success. failure inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success Roy T. Bennett
2e1ec53 If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship. inspirational life love relationship self-knowledge truth Steve Maraboli
38ed050 Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. life tragedy Jeannette Walls
caff737 I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There's only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating? dating inspirational inspirational-love inspirational-quotes life living love relationships true-love C. JoyBell C.
71ef007 It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and something of them and their world still clings to us. For those few moments we are unformed, uncivilized. We are not the people we know as ourselves, but creatures more in tune with a tree than a keyboard. We are untitled, unnamed, natural, suspended between was and will be, the tadpole before the frog, the worm before the butterfly. We are for a few brief moments, anything and everything we could be. And then...and then -- ah -- we open our eyes and the day is before us and ... we become ourselves. life nonconformity sleep Jerry Spinelli
7189ea1 A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon) honor life George R.R. Martin
fdc1b69 And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves. life Virginia Woolf
6628aca Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever. adversity challenge growth hope inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living motivation motivational never-lose-hope optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking potential Roy T. Bennett
87dd3e8 Every choice comes with a consequence. Once you make a choice, you must accept responsibility. You cannot escape the consequences of your choices, whether you like them or not. choices inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
e744cde You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do. doing energy heart inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking soul Roy T. Bennett
f8d6d2a It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. inspirational life self-acceptance Henry David Thoreau
5d58cda Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up. being-positive inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-quotes motivation motivational never-give-up never-giving-up optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking strong Roy T. Bennett
4a46e4a Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do. goodbyes life parting sad J.R.R. Tolkien
0e3e1b8 Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. inspirational life xkcd Randall Munroe
ab90312 That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't. life philosophy truth wisdom Judy Blume
b557b1b Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with. blessings drama empowerment gratitude inspirational life motivational purpose simplify Steve Maraboli
123bb6f There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. ecstasy life Jack London
0a55d2e If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them. feelings life people relationships respect vanity F. Scott Fitzgerald
9cfc0e2 How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals. failure inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success Roy T. Bennett
6b8423f ...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go. death friendship holocaust inspirational life love tear-jerker wwii-fiction John Boyne
d23ec89 Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? life Markus Zusak
bd026fe To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. life soul spiritual-development truth Oscar Wilde
8bcdbf4 She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted. death inspirational life nice comfort Cecelia Ahern
f189f7c Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality. inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking vision Roy T. Bennett
d431d07 Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always. encourage encouragement heart inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking self-confidence self-esteem success Roy T. Bennett
172f18d Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not? jr-ward life wrath J.R. Ward
3912a7c When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word... when it ceases to be just a measurement of time...but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... that is a reflection of true love. action forever hearts inspirational life love relationships true-love Steve Maraboli
cb54163 Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary; be that "extra" in "extraordinary. growth inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking progress Roy T. Bennett
30767da It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. human-nature jane-eyre life Charlotte Brontë
82a9244 you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets. enjoy-life enjoyment fight happy joy life no-regrets Ilona Andrews
caeab61 "People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that: "A quiet conscience mades one strong!" consciousness experience inspirational life life-lessons people true truth wisdom wisdom-quote Anne Frank
444cb7e The end is in the beginning and yet you go on. life Samuel Beckett
84ee0b4 I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. disatisfaction life Virginia Woolf
51e20f5 You will suffer, son of Hades!' What else is new? Nico thought. humour life nico-di-angelo suffering Rick Riordan
594a333 What if I mess up? inspirational life Victoria Schwab
9a8303f No matter how much experience you have, there's always something new you can learn and room for improvement. experience improvement inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
6d14f88 I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story. characters life G.K. Chesterton
764dc6d She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on. life Kate Atkinson
74d19d6 What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. kindness life simplicity Barbara Kingsolver
90206e3 Change course, but don't give up. change inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leadership life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational never-give-up optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
32ec10d Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life! action circumstances destiny greatness history inspirational life mediocre motivational mundane new-day power shape today truth victim victim-mentality Steve Maraboli
1ea4757 The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. future life sci-fi the-giver utopia Lois Lowry
27b71d6 When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. chaos-of-life happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile smiles Roy T. Bennett
21349a4 Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. explain life Haruki Murakami
734fbb4 Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side. harry-dresden life Jim Butcher
eb871c5 Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions. life thomas-raith Jim Butcher
016feb7 It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. life work John Irving
56b5dab But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything. harry-dresden inaction life molly-carpenter Jim Butcher
1fac6f6 And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. life Ian McEwan
29bc2bc You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in... life survival Nick Hornby
c9ec45e Beauty is a whore, I like money better. beauty life money Michael Cunningham
8f9311d Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of recalling the miraculous lives of the Saints and the great miracles that have come to pass on earth. Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for. believe imagination inspirational life Betty Smith
0be7cc4 "Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of recalling the miraculous lives of the Saints and the great miracles that have come to pass on earth. Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for." imagination inspirational life Betty Smith
885afbc To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble. inspirational life meaning wisdom Bill Watterson
b0d81a8 You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance. dancing life Gertrude Stein
d5b5958 In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence. life Neil Gaiman
ca28a8d The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries. cosmos life mystery universe Carl Sagan
4f0f37d Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. courage fantasy life Robin Hobb
d797f3c He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. growing-up innocence life loss-of-innocence truths youth Cormac McCarthy
b2f4ee5 No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. death endurance inspirational joy life optimism strength suicide truth David Hume
56a1692 Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing. focus-on inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic over-thinking positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
3fa1795 Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind. inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
fc25850 Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live. achieve achievement achieving ambition goals inspiration inspirational inspire inspiring life lifestyle living meaning motivate motivating motivation motivational purpose purpose-in-life reason reason-to-breathe reason-to-live sacrifice success successful-living Criss Jami
e9b679e Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. life loss Orson Scott Card
54fcd17 If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen. care-enough inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living make-things-happen motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
ec27338 The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little. life love Khaled Hosseini
a0f2645 There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape - own it - break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit. action inspirational life motivational seize-the-day self-empowerment success Steve Maraboli
325c81c Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather. happiness life wealth Alexandre Dumas
b82512c Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try. inspirational life promises risks sempre J.M. Darhower
2c7d8de My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy. dan-howell danisnotonfire happiness inspirational life youtube Dan Howell
463bb49 Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters. beautiful christ-like compassion consideration divine-love divine-works empathy faith giving god-like good-works helping-others inspirational jesus life poor sympathy the-one unconditional-love value works worth Criss Jami
1b345a0 I don't chase after anyone, If you wanna walk out of my life, then I'll hold the fucking door open for you. haters inspirational life Wiz Khalifa
65ba401 Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new. inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring letting-go life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
0fed28f The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead. carpe-diem enjoy-life inspirational life Marjorie Pay Hinckley
9582da5 Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing. beautiful beauty belief belief-quotes destiny happiness inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life life-and-living life-experience living spirit truth C. JoyBell C.
cee62a1 Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness. laziness life Albert Camus
4cc5086 I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me. destiny freedom happiness humanism inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring life life-and-living living spirit stained-glass-window C. JoyBell C.
0d9fab8 Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be. faith happiness hope life living love misery pain positivity stoicism T.H. White
92b424a You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value. life living thoughts Hermann Hesse
c810530 That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. life life-changing-events these-are-words Charles Dickens
af13cf2 If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life. life Bill Watterson
25bdcec To be alive is to be missing. john-green life missing page-281 turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
a5ae715 There is no more profitable investment than investing in yourself. It is the best investment you can make; you can never go wrong with it. It is the true way to improve yourself to be the best version of you and lets you be able to best serve those around you. inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring invest-in-yourself life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
40a17d1 Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better. best-books excellence good-books happin inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life life-and-living life-experience life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes motivation motivational-quotes wisdom Bohdi Sanders
6df908f If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood? death life pessimism Arthur Schopenhauer
c594e33 You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right. change hope inspiration inspirational life past Ann Brashares
227ef12 "YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break..." fear habit humor life Terry Pratchett
869a9cf You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you. life people you David Levithan
d6e65d6 A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness. life Margaret Atwood
6e68224 Rise to the occassion which is life! inspirational life Virginia Euwer Wolff
9678a15 You enter the fores inspirational life way Joseph Campbell
02afa47 Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have. inspirational life time Eckhart Tolle
74cf893 If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings. inspirational lessons life love perspective self thoughts Nayyirah Waheed
240b7c0 Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God's already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn't pay Him for what He's done for me. a-w-tozer ages done earth god inspirational life millenniums million pay prayer the-truth truth worship A.W. Tozer
ddec5d8 To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence. fear inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking self-confidence Roy T. Bennett
10e690b If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity. happiness hero humanity inspirational life motivational story success Steve Maraboli
311bc49 Learning to should be learned before learning to Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. It's like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current. And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That's a triumph. letting-go life Ray Bradbury
bfee52d No matter how hard life is, don't lose hope inspirational life one-direction Zayn Malik
e33c9e0 You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential. life way Joseph Campbell
a433372 "The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to the sky. At the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye in its palm. The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions. They pitied Earthlings for being able to see only three. They had many wonderful things to teach Earthlings, especially about time. Billy promised to tell what some of those wonderful things were in his next letter. Billy was working on his second letter when the first letter was published. The second letter started out like this: The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "so it goes." life tralfamadorians Kurt Vonnegut
bdcdcde This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. inspirational life philosophy Rumi
09a2ecf She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that. inspirational life butterflies Lisa Genova
a82ab23 Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast. h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy humor life Douglas Adams
16d5fc3 For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a now that can breed futures like bread in our children's mouths so their dreams will not reflect the death of ours: For those of us who were imprinted with fear like a faint line in the center of our foreheads learning to be afraid with our mother's milk for by this weapon this illusion of some safety to be found the heavy-footed hoped to silence us For all of us this instant and this triumph We were never meant to survive. And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive. life poetry silence speaking-out Audre Lorde
e555356 Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had. ethical grief jodi-picoult life moral perfect-match ran Jodi Picoult
8893c81 The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces. life million pieces sad James Frey
2998635 When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our". inspirational life love relationships understanding-others Steve Maraboli
e3d948d If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. death intimacy life poetry privacy Fernando Pessoa
e853f03 "She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal." life moments Jean-Paul Sartre
cceb7d2 We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. consciousness cosmos inspirational life universe Brian Cox
9685cbd We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. life inspirational Joseph Campbell
5baa22f Life is more fun if you play games. fun games life play Roald Dahl
020ca52 If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. future life Henry David Thoreau
24fe16b We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break. life lolita nabokov Vladimir Nabokov
3681dca In the midst of life, we are in death. life Agatha Christie
4450ec0 But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture. crazy excitement fireworks hyper life wild Raymond Carver
2359afd People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies. effort fragile life regrets sincerity Haruki Murakami
84ef3d1 "Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." humor life meaning question Douglas Adams
141db28 You don't get to pick where you're from, but you always have control of where you're going. inspirational life Chris Colfer
51abc91 There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am. bravery courage inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life life-and-living living living-life perfection raw rawness readiness ready C. JoyBell C.
01e5ba2 Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent. humor life Glen Cook
e89aef0 Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered. life possibility regrets what-if Nicholas Sparks
1eaa19e Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive? andrew beautiful clements inspirational ironic life oxemoron paradox wisdom Andrew Clements
399e6d4 "I pull my foot back again, but Four's hands clamp around my arms, and he pulls me away from her with irresistible force. I breathe through gritted teeth, staring at Molly's blood-covered face, the color deep and rich and beautiful, in a way. She groans, and I hear a gurgling in her throat, watch blood trickle from her lips. "You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes too wide; they look alarmed. "I think you should leave," he says. "Take a walk." I'm fine," I say. "I'm fine now," I say again, this time for myself. I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't." life Veronica Roth
e28b3ca Life is ours to be spent, not t inspirational life D.H. Lawrence
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