Quotes About Life

You weren't always born to the right parents. And parents didn't necessarily get the kids they were meant to raise.

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.

Terrible things can happen in this life but being in love changes everything. It gives you something to hold on to.

It's not God's job to decide what happens," she'd said. "It's his job to help you get

You can fill a lifetime with if only's or you can get on with it.

Miri, sweetheart—life is hard," Henry said, "but it's worth the struggle.

Life is a series of unlikely events, isn't it? Hers certainly is. One unlikely event after another, adding up to a rich, complicated whole. And who knows what's still to come? Lily looks out the window

To be ordinary was a fate worse than death.

When you're without problems," Clare said, "you're dead.

Let's say your life depended on it. You have to choose or you'll die." "Which one would you choose?" Caitlin said. "I asked you first." "Okay," Caitlin said. "I guess I'd take Von." Good, Vix thought. Because she had already chosen Bru for herself.

How many times had Rusty reminded Miri, You're my only child. You're my life. So when it comes to doing stupid things, don't. Because I couldn't stand it if I lost you. Do you understand?

Love's a hard game to play, my darlings. Play it well.

Remember this, Precious Child … nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn.

To Leah and Henry. Terrible things can happen in this life but being in love changes everything. It gives you something to hold on to. From

In the unlikely event…she hears the flight attendant saying in her head. Life is a series of unlikely events, isn't it? Hers certainly is. One unlikely event after another, adding up to a rich, complicated whole. And who knows what's still to come? Lily looks out the window, then back at her. "My dad says unlikely events aren't all bad. There are good ones, too.

not everything has to have a point, some things just are.

La vida es una buena aventura," I say, pleased with myself. I have picked up several Spanish phrases and this is one of them. "What does that mean?" Bitsy asks. "It means that life is a good adventure.

There is an old saying that every time you sigh, a drop of blood falls from your heart. It seems I sigh more now than I ever did, and that probably means my heart has lost many tear-shaped drops. I have lived my life, as we all do, between these sighs, between these drops of blood.

For songs are the heart of our memory and they let us live the search for meaning in our lives again and again.

Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankel.

Our lives, and even our afterlives, are made from the stories we tell each other. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Porque la risa es una función esencial de nuestra naturaleza. ¿Cómo soportar la vida si no podemos reír, al menos en los intervalos entre nuestros dolores?

El domingo, después del oficio, había bastantes enfermos; pedían socorros y se les daba sólo palabras: -Has pecado y Dios te aflige. Da gracias, menos tendrás que sufrir en la otra vida. Resígnate, sufre, muere. La Iglesia tiene plegarias para sus difuntos.- Débiles, desmadejados, sin esperanza, ni ganas de vivir, seguían bien este consejo y dejaban escapar la vida.

And such is the power of the organization so introduced, that even when life shall appear to desert it, and its destruction by the barbarians inevitable, they will submit to its yoke. Despite themselves, they must dwell under the everlasting roofs which mock their efforts at destruction: they will bow the head, and, victors as they are, receive laws from vanquished Rome. ... Such is the work of civil order.