Quotes About Life

If I've learned one thing, its that we can't live in regret. God doesn't want that for our lives.~ Barrett Thorn

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.

We are Energy, trapped in a bag of blood and guts.

I want things to be normal. I want you to call me and tell me about your life. I want to hear about Ally, and I want to talk politics. I want to garden, and walk my dog. I want my life as it is and and as it has been, until I die.

And saying yes to this version of her life would mean saying no to another version of her life.

There was nothing of either fire or ice in it; only a tepid warmth, like lukewarm water that when you first stepped in felt comfortable to the skin, but if you stayed in too long would slowly sap the life from mind and body, leaving you numb, spent, incapable even of the few strokes necessary to keep your head above water.

Child," she said, not taking her gaze from the window, "God ain't waiting at no finish line. No, Jesus is running with you, caring more about the steps on the way than the big finish. Can't nobody impress God. Just look at what he created out there!

Mom says good health is like buying an appliance at a garage sale. You do the best you can to make sure it's in good shape and then leave the rest to God.

People die. That's natural. But if you throw someone in front of a bus, they're gonna die a little faster.

Someone came into the room. She heard footsteps, sensed someone looming over her, peeling back the sheet to take her pulse and check the bandage. "She may not make it, sir." "She damn well will make it if I have to cross into the hereafter and drag her back!

Gray, desperate, raked a hand through his hair. "Very well then, belay that. You want the truth, I'll ram it down your pretty throat! Yes, I jumped ship, and if the navy finds me here, my life is ruined.

And I love you, Gray. I'm sorry I've made your life . . . difficult." "Difficult? You have made it a veritable hell! But it has been quite an adventure, I grant you that. I would not have had it otherwise.

And then he looked up into her eyes and splayed his fingers over her still-flat belly, his smile one of wonder and awe. "And to think that a life grows within you . . . a child. My child. Our child. . .

I didn't do anything wrong, Gray. I merely saved your life, and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Her throat tightened and she blinked back sudden tears. I'd do it again in a heartbeat because, dammit, I love you.

Would your life as an admiral's wife be as bad as all that? He said you could go to sea with him. He said you could always stay near him. He said you could have all the freedom you wanted. His only wish is that you give up the pirating. And given that he's an admiral, that's really not such an unreasonable request . . . is it?

As my grandmother always said, there was only one perfect person to ever walk this earth, and God took him back.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

It would be many years before I began to understand that all of life is practice: writing, driving, hiking, brushing teeth, packing lunch boxes, making beds, cooking dinner, making love, walking dogs, even sleeping. We are always practicing. Only practicing.

I've become convinced that our lives are shaped less by the mistakes we make than when we make them. There is less elasticity now. Less time to bounce back. And so I heed the urgent whisper and move with greater and greater deliberation.

And probably every object that we make room for in our life immediately structures that life—the important thing, don't you agree, is to actually acknowledge and experience this fact.

When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

You can't control every event of your life, Miss Darlington, so you might as well enjoy each moment you can and grasp each lovely opportunity that comes your way… such as this glorious, sunny day.

I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it.