Quotes in category: “Life”:

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

You have to keep breathing because tomorrow, the sun will rise, and you never know what the tide will bring

Why does the one thing we don't have affect all the things that we do have?

In the end, you are all you have, and that has to be enough, there is no other way.

Life will always be to a large extent, what we ourselves make it.

Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend.

That which hurts, also instructs.

I would like to say that the first time Adam had the chance, he laid the blame on the woman.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

And it's weird to me that when I drive home from college and get to that point, you know the point when things become more familiar... more comforting... more reminiscent of a childhood you left behind... the point where most home bound college kids get excited. But I get nervous, my hands start to shake, my stomach hurts, and I know deep down it's all because I dread the change thats taking place between us.

Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Nothing was mine, except my heart, and my fears. And my growing knowledge that not every road was going to lead home anymore.

There is nothing about a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who was the first person was who said that, probably Shakespeare or maybe Sting, but at the moment that sentence that best explains my tragic flaw--my inability to change. I don't think I'm wrong in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible. Standing perfectly still, it feels better somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar, because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected, who knows what other pain might be waiting out there; chances are could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo, choose the road already traveled, and it doesn't seem that bad--not as far as flaws go--you're not a drug addict, not killing anyone, except maybe yourself, a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake, or an explosion, or all of a sudden you're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that, the kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they look really really close. Which thank God they never do, but you notice it. Inside you, that change feels like a world of difference and you hope that it is, and that this is a person that you get to be forever, that you'll never have to change again.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is merely what others think you are.

Great people don't react to situations, they respond.

It is the quiet moments, the moments out of the spotlight, that most defines character

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important then fear.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.