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5a01a11 Until death it is all life life livving Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
0a8c1e8 There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on. story fantasy life Charles deLint
86527e4 A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future. moving-on life Jodi Picoult
1ac81c6 I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers gratitude death life love inspirational oliver-sacks thinking Oliver Sacks
8716d5f Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. life inspirational Og Mandino
124627b We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. The feelings must be followed. It doesn't matter whether you're an ideologue or a sensualist, you follow the stimuli thinking that they're your signposts to the promised land. But they are nothing of the kind. What they are is rocks to navigate the past, each on your brush against, ripping you a little more open and they are always more on the horizon. But you can't face up to the that, so you force yourself to believe the bullshit of those you instinctively know are liars and you repeat those lies to yourself and to others, hoping that by repeating them often and fervently enough you'll attain the godlike status we accord those who tell the lies most frequently and most passionately. But you never do, and even if you could, you wouldn't value it, you'd realise that nobody believes in heroes any more. We know that they only want to sell us something we don't really want and keep from us what we really do need. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe we're getting in touch with our condition at last. It's horrible how we always die alone, but no worse than living alone. lies life truth schizophrenia Irvine Welsh
65e5b72 People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. life Haruki Murakami
8be20dc I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's. life parents Craig Ferguson
495cdcf I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter. life self-value worthy John Green
7006c5e We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive. life love inspirational John Eldredge
6cf9c55 "Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses, he did not believe in islands, he did not believe in God. His father, the king, told him that such things did not exist. As there were no princesses or islands in his father's domains, and no sign of God, the young prince believed his father. But then, one day, the prince ran away from his palace. He came to the next land. There, to his astonishment, from every coast he saw islands, and on these islands, strange and troubling creatures whom he dared not name. As he was searching for a boat, a man in full evening dress approached him along the shore. Are those real islands?' asked the young prince. Of course they are real islands,' said the man in evening dress. And those strange and troubling creatures?' They are all genuine and authentic princesses.' Then God must exist!' cried the prince. I am God,' replied the man in full evening dress, with a bow. The young prince returned home as quickly as he could. So you are back,' said the father, the king. I have seen islands, I have seen princesses, I have seen God,' said the prince reproachfully. The king was unmoved. Neither real islands, nor real princesses, I have seen God,' said the prince reproachfully. The king was unmoved. Neither real islands, nor real princesses, nor a real God exist.' I saw them!' Tell me how God was dressed.' God was in full evening dress.' Were the sleeves of his coat rolled back?' The prince remembered that they had been. The king smiled. That is the uniform of a magician. You have been deceived.' At this, the prince returned to the next land, and went to the same shore, where once again he came upon the man in full evening dress. My father the king has told me who you are,' said the young prince indignantly. 'You deceived me last time, but not again. Now I know that those are not real islands and real princesses, because you are a magician.' The man on the shore smiled. It is you who are deceived, my boy. In your father's kingdom there are many islands and many princesses. But you are under your father's spell, so you cannot see them.' The prince pensively returned home. When he saw his father, he looked him in the eyes. Father, is it true that you are not a real king, but only a magician?' The king smiled, and rolled back his sleeves. Yes, my son, I am only a magician.' Then the man on the shore was God.' The man on the shore was another magician.' I must know the real truth, the truth beyond magic.' There is no truth beyond magic,' said the king. The prince was full of sadness. He said, 'I will kill myself.' The king by magic caused death to appear. Death stood in the door and beckoned to the prince. The prince shuddered. He remembered the beautiful but unreal islands and the unreal but beautiful princesses. suicide magic death god life philosophy John Fowles
1197cb7 Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end. deborah-moggach india travel life inspirational Deborah Moggach
231a0c7 It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there. life John O'Donohue
72c61ce We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. life Oscar Wilde
d4b8c75 Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes. life inspirational Vincent Willem van Gogh
94563ec Me life inspirational David Mitchell
2739ae9 "The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when joy spirituality god life St. Thomas Aquinas
f041178 Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy. life-view life inspirational Banana Yoshimoto
e2db3de This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning. life inspirational winning Winston S. Churchill
8f06c8b Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational adversity challenge Roy T. Bennett
4970eb8 By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. life truth Virginia Woolf
a9731e6 We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. theatre life exit actors entrance transition passage drama Tom Stoppard
6579c43 Me, want to bloody kick this world in the bloody over and over till it bloody that is ten bloody times more bloody important than being . life David Mitchell
7508ac5 You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it. jinnah courage life inspirational making-a-difference selflessness Muhammad Ali Jinnah
c243475 Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. book-title life inspirational tragic William Shakespeare
c02c959 I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform. life Stephen Fry
0d70a47 Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities. ability leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation inspiring motivational life inspirational leader leaders vision Roy T. Bennett
1080a4c Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. limitations freedom life Haruki Murakami
a218512 ...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going. persistence life love energy survival Kevin Brockmeier
43bb406 Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. swedish-proverb life love inspirational quotes Swedish Proverb
a76feab Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone's advice, then bother to listen to it. humor life Sophie Kinsella
34f4396 Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now? past life wisdom self-motivation Brian Tracy
644f1d2 Wake up, Shake up, Make up and Break up; life is all about moving like ant in search of sugar not sand. life love inspirational Santosh Kalwar
449f649 For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit. happiness life inspirational Tiffanie DeBartolo
f33cbfb The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be. life ennui Haruki Murakami
912fae7 Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.'' Manuscript Found In Accra - Paulo Coelho defeat doubt god life love scar humiliation denial helplessness victory honour valiant Paulo Coelho
9e5e426 Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. happiness hope life love inspirational happy-life Immanuel Kant
ee86dd7 Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years. life Willa Cather
ef5cf66 I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. gratitude life love inspirational oliver-sacks thinking Oliver Sacks
0045fb6 Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. inspiration life wisdom Charlotte Brontë
79a2fcc Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond. living life for-whom-the-bell-tolls ernest-hemingway dying Ernest Hemingway
7c0022e Life was not longer something to endure, but to live. life Hubert Selby Jr.
ba650d0 The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument. human god spiritual life Anonymous
db807e3 I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving. relationship change life-lessons life love inspirational Deb Caletti
4ef8b69 Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced. motivational happiness life inspirational destination choices Steve Maraboli
31258ed When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it. living life never-give-up David Levithan
00e6417 When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal. life ignorance Paulo Coelho
f44ec52 "Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me... And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of." - Maximum Ride." life maximum-ride James Patterson
1fa700b Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. death life inspirational Michael Cunningham
2d64ce8 It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need. life wisdom inspirational overreaction needs reaction wants mental-health Amy Poehler
425b8c2 Always live your life with your biography in mind. life marisha-pessl Marisha Pessl
69e6e35 I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. life Oscar Wilde
90e8efe Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. ambitions breathe relationships motivational success life inspirational desires leader goals Steve Maraboli
2704279 Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. life indifference desire Kahlil Gibran
5849788 Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world. be-yourself kindness inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational authentic-living growth Roy T. Bennett
b974376 A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose. life inspirational sailor ship wind Avi
44dffc0 Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative. life Jim Butcher
9c71bb4 Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away. life love value Graham Greene
47fe022 We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt. work life pursuit-of-happiness rewards intellect Ayn Rand
9975b3d Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in. life birthday Lynsay Sands
c96b4fe I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good. good life choices guilt Holly Black
d86efe1 When you stop being afraid you feel good life Spencer Johnson
8f772ac I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. terry-pratchett witches life truth inspirational tiffany-aching Terry Pratchett
77a4e0f "You should read something else." Why would he have done that to him?" I don't know," she said. Do you ever feel like Job?" She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes. Sometimes." But you haven't lost your faith?" No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine. faith hope life job Nicholas Sparks
45b6225 Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does. individuality identity life inspirational life-advice advice peer-pressure bullying Phil Lester
70a0a22 Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. escape mind life inspirational Virginia Woolf
6a28517 When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep. life love maturity experience John Gardner
8912300 I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death. fear life Alexandre Dumas
cab4897 To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us. life possibility Hayao Miyazaki
e1b97a4 We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this. death life inspirational Anne Lamott
9dc1760 "Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you -- and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life. libraries reading life Isaac Asimov
82468d4 The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I may wake up sometime next year without my mind again; it is not likely to stick around all the time. Meanwhile, however, I have discovered what I would have to call a soul, a part of myself I could never have imagined until one day, seven years ago, when hell came to pay me a surprise visit. It's a precious discovery. Almost every day I feel momentary flashes of hopelessness and wonder every time whether I am slipping. For a petrifying instant here and there, a lightning-quick flash, I want a car to run me over...I hate these feelings but, but I know that they have driven me to look deeper at life, to find and cling to reasons for living, I cannot find it in me to regret entirely the course my life has taken. Every day, I choose, sometimes gamely, and sometimes against the moment's reason, to be alive. Is that not a rare joy? life Andrew Solomon
b951c83 Anymore, no one's mind is their own. life originality modernity Chuck Palahniuk
2b45a67 Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table. lessons life Elizabeth Gilbert
e4317a5 The night is just a part of the day life Paulo Coelho
51fd073 I am not my body. My body is nothing without me. life health soul Tom Stoppard
cb6a99c Skinny guys fight till they're burger. men life Chuck Palahniuk
6ec22cc Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..' I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over joy sadness optimism happiness life misattributed-dr-seuss crying smile smiling josh stern
c9ad006 Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. life wisdom inspirational Evanescence
84ef988 my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost. life Nick Hornby
0688bf0 We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. work inspiration education life knowledge C.S. Lewis
2fff584 A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife's adultery, and a mob carries her to the marketplace to stone her to death. There is a familiar version of this story, but a friend of mine - a Speaker for the Dead - has told me of two other Rabbis that faced the same situation. Those are the ones I'm going to tell you. The Rabbi walks forward and stands beside the woman. Out of respect for him the mob forbears and waits with the stones heavy in their hands. 'Is there any man here,' he says to them, 'who has not desired another man's wife, another woman's husband?' They murmur and say, 'We all know the desire, but Rabbi none of us has acted on it.' The Rabbi says, 'Then kneel down and give thanks that God has made you strong.' He takes the woman by the hand and leads her out of the market. Just before he lets her go, he whispers to her, 'Tell the Lord Magistrate who saved his mistress, then he'll know I am his loyal servant.' So the woman lives because the community is too corrupt to protect itself from disorder. Another Rabbi. Another city. He goes to her and stops the mob as in the other story and says, 'Which of you is without sin? Let him cast the first stone.' The people are abashed, and they forget their unity of purpose in the memory of their own individual sins. 'Someday,' they think, 'I may be like this woman. And I'll hope for forgiveness and another chance. I should treat her as I wish to be treated.' As they opened their hands and let their stones fall to the ground, the Rabbi picks up one of the fallen stones, lifts it high over the woman's head and throws it straight down with all his might it crushes her skull and dashes her brain among the cobblestones. 'Nor am I without sins,' he says to the people, 'but if we allow only perfect people to enforce the law, the law will soon be dead - and our city with it.' So the woman died because her community was too rigid to endure her deviance. The famous version of this story is noteworthy because it is so startlingly rare in our experience. Most communities lurch between decay and rigor mortis and when they veer too far they die. Only one Rabbi dared to expect of us such a perfect balance that we could preserve the law and still forgive the deviation. So of course, we killed him. -San Angelo Letters to an Incipient Heretic life law forgiveness Orson Scott Card
69a1eba This new day has greeted us with no rules; unconditional opportunity. Do not dilute the power of this new day with the hardship of yesterday. Greet this day the way it has greeted you; with open arms and endless possibility. new-day life inspirational blessings possibilities Steve Maraboli
9d20cf3 How would your life be different if...You didn't allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day...You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self. action history opportunity destiny change empowerment motivational life inspirational Steve Maraboli
a2a7704 I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. humor life Jim Butcher
83e8e8f A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned? life Alan Moore
14da37f girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would welcome the intolerable dull senseless hell you would bring me and I wish you luck in bed and out but not in mine thank you. irony poem poetry women funny death life love bukowski dull girls misogyny rejection sexuality hell Charles Bukowski
51f07a8 I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE! life inspirational book Margaret Peterson Haddix
218627d Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns with your core values in the most purposeful way possible. choice core-values leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational choices Roy T. Bennett
786e340 The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else. life the-world Rudyard Kipling
26a69d7 She looks at the swings, and I can see she's imagining what they'd look like if the kids weren't there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything. life love Markus Zusak
1d4dee6 One of the best ways to influence people is to make those around you feel important. influence leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation inspiring motivational life inspirational leader leaders Roy T. Bennett
d9c0c2a Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us. people compassion motivational life inspirational anger resentment grudge Steve Maraboli
6552089 We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are. science intelligence life stewardship Stephen Jay Gould
dd4d0c3 No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes--forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique. tragedy life insulation originality islands isolation Neil Gaiman
1476e94 The dead do not hurt you; only the living do. living death life the-sinner tess-gerritsen hurt Tess Gerritsen
15f56ad Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters. life inspirational Ernest Hemingway
8f8594e What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it. life Jodi Picoult
3ab31fc It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention. life inspirational attitude Conan O'Brien
d50c9b5 And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into. life hopeless Nick Hornby
3ae4786 You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default. life J.K. Rowling
7594a7d The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others. trust-yourself inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life spirituality inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational believe-in-yourself authentic-living believe Roy T. Bennett
2f1ed05 It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her. life medicine Mary Roach
2cc4f86 If you care about someone enough, you'll always be there for them no matter what. be-there care-enough inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
438ed68 Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart is drunken with overmindfulness of self. Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet she is near; and though only the breath of your breath reaches her heart, the shadow of your shadow crosses her face, and the echo of your faintest cry becomes a spring and an autumn in her breast. And life is veiled and hidden, even as your greater self is hidden and veiled. Yet when Life speaks, all the winds become words; and when she speaks again, the smiles upon your lips and the tears in your eyes turn also into words. When she sings, the deaf hear and are held; and when she comes walking, the sightless behold her and are amazed and follow her in wonder and astonishment. light darkness life Kahlil Gibran
b123905 Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? struggle optimism happiness life survival Tom Stoppard
8505a05 They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings? humanity life humanity-and-society Stephen King
b04d2cd A mistake isn't a mistake unless it can't be put right. life truth mistake right Sophie Kinsella
bbb7a2b When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster. dogs life Dean Koontz
5863469 The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. mortality life inspirational Mitch Albom
e415c12 No matter how many people believe or don't believe in you, you must b faith life inspirational attitude believe pablo
83def1d Every moment in life is an act of faith life Paulo Coelho
3b9bcf2 I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself. bottle life days remorse running drunk remember forget Mitch Albom
e203da9 Remember that things are not always as they appear to be... Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities. opportunity leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational possibility leader leaders curiosity creativity Roy T. Bennett
444fac2 "For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, "Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I never met a man or a woman who were worthy of it; if I have not written any very good books, it is because I had not the leisure to do so; or, if I have had no children to whom I could devote myself it is because I did not find the man I could have lived with. So there remains within me a wide range of abilities, inclinations and potentialities, unused but perfectly viable, which endow me with a worthiness that could never be inferred from the mere history of my actions." But in reality and for the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art." meaning life Jean-Paul Sartre
463ef48 We don't truly appreciate what we have until it's gone... We don't really appreciate something until we have experienced some events; we don't really appreciate our parents until we ourselves have become parents. Be grateful for what you have now, and nothing should be taken for granted. gratitude inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
6e89ea2 Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more. life stories Jeanette Winterson
753d461 You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does. life inspirational Philip Pullman
59e709c The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel. influence leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation inspiring motivational life inspirational listen leader leaders important talk listening talking Roy T. Bennett
7658a33 I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. future life inspirational doors Elizabeth Taylor
f11e957 We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it. world life George Eliot
3e03ebb I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance. perseverance living hope life determination Jeanette Winterson
d9505b8 " So early it's still almost dark out. I'm near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that passes for thought. When I see the boy and his friend walking up the road to deliver the newspaper. They wear caps and sweaters, and one boy has a bag over his shoulder. They are so happy they aren't saying anything, these boys. I think if they could, they would take each other's arm. It's early in the morning, and they are doing this thing together. They come on, slowly. The sky is taking on light, though the moon still hangs pale over the water. Such beauty that for a minute death and ambition, even love, doesn't enter into this. Happiness. It comes on poetry life Raymond Carver
3b4d916 Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. pain suffering nature life C.S. Lewis
948a183 The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies. life Laura Ingalls Wilder
a3b4d36 I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return. kindness goodness inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
ec48fb6 "Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness." spiritual life Jon Kabat-Zinn
a4f051a Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. life Ray Bradbury
4227772 "I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say "This is it"? My depression is a harassed feeling. I'm looking: but that's not it -- that's not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?" life Virginia Woolf
4b50fcf Nalaman kong habang lumalaki ka, maraming beses kang madadapa. Bumangon ka man ulit o hindi, magpapatuloy ang buhay, iikot ang mundo, at mauubos ang oras. bob-ong life inspirational Bob Ong
e315de2 "There's power in the touch of another person's hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There's a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands. "It comes from our very earliest memories, when we all come into the world blinded by light and color, deafened by riotous sound, flailing in a suddenly cavernous space without any way of orienting ourselves, shuddering with cold, emptied with hunger, and justifiably frightened and confused. And what changes that first horror, that original state of terror? "The touch of another person's hands. "Hands that wrap us in warmth, that hold us close. Hands that guide us to shelter, to comfort, to food. Hands that hold and touch and reassure us through our very first crisis, and guide us into our very first shelter from pain. The first thing we ever learn is that the touch of someone else's hand can ease pain and make things better. "That's power. That's power so fundamental that most people never even realize it exists." life love wisdom Jim Butcher
a512429 When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90) death life now eternity Joseph Campbell
afe8fdc Learning the truth has become my life's love. life truth Dan Brown
e538095 Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it. life inspirational mottos advice Jhumpa Lahiri
e38df74 Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is. life full-dark-no-stars roll sevens stephen-king fair Stephen King
2418cde It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves literature life truth wisdom plays Arthur Miller
98242f1 I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else. I'm talking about freedom, Fogg. A sense of despair that becomes so great, so crushing, so catastrophic, that you have no choice but to be liberated by it. That's the only choice, or else you crawl into a corner and die. self-determination freedom life philosophy Paul Auster
2337b2c "The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes." life love Laurell K. Hamilton
5a4fbeb But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted. future life Gustave Flaubert
5f9383d REMEMBER YOUR GREATNES existence giant living-achievement loss struggles suffering suzy-kassem poem courage poetry human achieve beauty confidence strength success life wisdom inspirational winners born great affirmation eye loser egg sperm winner big attitude survivor winning obstacles small competition odds greatness successful birth pains race warrior victory losing fears win Suzy Kassem
fe6f883 "As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents." life cigarettes smart smoking John Green
fb4eabf "WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness friendship life love togetherness companionship Walt Whitman
daf4259 It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life. life relaxation relax Paulo Coelho
9b8667b Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. hope life significance purpose Rick Warren
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